UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Nic Rigby
BBC News
Two men have been charged with abusing 26 children at a Catholic boys’ home in Bedfordshire more than 40 years ago.
James McCann, 79, of Suffield Court, Swaffham, Norfolk, is charged with 18 sexual assaults and 48 assaults in connection with St Francis Boy’s Home, Shefford, between 1963 and 1974.
John Cahill, 73, of Chandos Court, Bedford, has been charged with six sexual offences against four boys.
Both men will appear at Luton Magistrates’ Court on 30 November.
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