UNITED KINGDOM
Mirror
2 March 2015 By Amy De-Keyzer
A priest has been jailed more than 30 years after sexually abusing a boy under 16 at a children’s home.
Father Anthony McSweeney was found guilty of indecent assault of a boy, between January 1979 and July 1981, and three counts of making indecent photographs/pseudo photographs of children on or before January 15 2013.
Southwark Crown Court heard the incident was committed during his time working at Grafton Close Children’s Home in Hanworth.
The 68-year-old, of Crawley in Sussex, was convicted as part of Operation Fernbridge, part of the wider Operation Fairbank which was launched in 2012 to investigate allegations of child abuse at the home in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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