UNITED KINGDOM
Bedfordshire on Sunday
THE lawyer of 40 victims who suffered vile abuse at the hands of priests, nuns and other staff at a Shefford children’s home dubbed the ‘orphanage from hell’ has warned the fight for compensation will be a long one.
Tracey Emmott, a specialist child abuse lawyer working at Bedford-based Emmott Snell solicitors, said civil action against St Francis Children’s Society is now under ‘immediate consideration’ after criminal proceedings were brought to an end yesterday.
Her clients, now in their 60s, wept in court as they told how their lives were devastated by the abuse they suffered as children at the St Francis Boys Home in Shefford.
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