UNITED KINGDOM
Oldham Evening Chronicle
A FORMER deputy headmaster has been jailed for four years after admitting sexually molesting nine youngsters over 35 years ago.
Grandfather Anthony Kerr (71) and in frail physical and mental health, preyed on the vulnerable boys when he was a teacher at an Oldham school.
Kerr, who later went on to devote his life to the church and became a Church of England priest, carried out the offences over four years from the late 1970s.
Manchester Crown Court heard the circumstances were virtually identical in each case: he called the boys – some as young as seven – to his desk to hear them read for him. then he sat them on his knee and fondled them under their short trousers. If they made a mistake wile reading he would pinch them.
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