UNITED KINGDOM
ITV
A Catholic priest will be sentenced today for abusing a teenage boy at a Lancashire boarding school.
Father Michael Higginbottom, 74, was convicted for subjecting a teenage boy to repeated sexual abuse when he worked as a teacher at St Joseph’s College in Upholland, Lancashire, in the late 1970s.
A jury at Liverpool Crown Court took 10 hours and 20 minutes to find him guilty of four counts of indecent assault and four counts of buggery.
All the verdicts were decided by a majority of 10 to two.
During the trial, which began on Monday April 3, the court heard the victim was aged between 13 and 14 at the time of the abuse.
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