UNITED KINGDOM
Bedford Today
Amanda Devlin
amanda.devlin@jpress.co.uk
Two men have been charged with abusing 26 boys – some as young as five years old – at a Shefford boys’ home in the 1960s.
A 79-year-old man from Swaffham, Norfolk, is charged with 66 offences – 18 sexual and 48 physical – which are alleged to have taken place at St Francis Boys’ Home between 1963 and 1974.
The 25 boys were aged between five and 16.
A 73-year-old man from Bedford has been charged with six sexual offences against four boys aged between 11 and 16.
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