UNITED KINGDOM
Liverpool Echo
BY JANET TANSLEY
After years of pain and torment, Chris Ryder had finally had enough.
As he listened to yet more tales of historic child abuse on the TV news, tears welling in his eyes, he picked up the phone to the police…and told them of his own.
“I couldn’t live with the pain any longer,” he says. “I was fed up of hearing about historic sex cases each one bringing me to tears, I had to tell someone and get him off the streets and, hopefully, get help for myself!”
Like so many others Chris’s abuse had been inflicted on him by someone he should have been able to trust. John Michael Creagh – “we knew him as Michael Creagh” – was a scoutmaster who had become a friend of the family in Ormskirk.
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