UNITED KINGDOM
Hull Daily Mail
Former priest Anthony McCallen and former headmaster James Carragher have been jailed for sexually abusing boys at the St William’s care home and approved school. Simon Bristow reports on how they were caught.
VULNERABLE boys sexually abused at a children’s home may have felt they had to go along with it to “stay alive”, the officer in charge of the inquiry has said.
James Carragher, 75, and Anthony McCallen, 69, were yesterday jailed for a total of 24 years for abusing children in their care at the former St William’s approved school in Market Weighton.
Former headmaster Carragher, a member of the Roman Catholic De La Salle order, which ran the school, was jailed for nine years for 24 sexual offences, including three now known as male rape, against seven boys.
Carragher, of Cearns Road in Prenton, Wirral, was cleared of a further 30 charges.
It was his third conviction for abusing pupils at St William’s, for which he was previously jailed for 21 years.
Former chaplain McCallen, an ordained Roman Catholic priest, was jailed for 15 years for 11 sex offences, including one now known as male rape, against four boys.
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