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Retired headmaster and chaplain handed prison sentences for historical sex abuse (5 January 2016)

Date: 05/01/2016
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Retired headmaster and chaplain handed prison sentences for historical sex abuse

Leeds Crown Court has sentenced two men aged 75 and 69 for historical sex offences against boys in their care between 1970 and 1991.

James Carragher,75, and Anthony McCallen ,69, were convicted on 35 charges of sex offences against 11 young boys in the care of a residential home near Market Weighton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The care home specialised in caring for troubled boys.

On Monday (04/01/16), Carragher was sentenced to nine years in prison, while McCallen received a 15-year prison sentence.

After the hearing, reviewing lawyer for CPS Yorkshire and Humberside, Caroline May, said:

“This case involves the systematic abuse and rape of children as young as 12.

“These young boys were troubled and vulnerable, who had been removed from their families and sent to St Williams Boys’ Home in the East Riding.

“Both defendants were senior members of staff in positions of considerable power and authority – Carragher was the headmaster and McCallen, an ordained priest, was the school chaplain.

“Far from being dedicated to the education and protection of the young, these men were bullies and paedophiles – cynical sexual predators who deliberately sought out contact with vulnerable children to abuse and, in some cases, rape them.

“I would like to pay tribute to the numerous victims in this case for coming forward, helping us to build a strong prosecution case and giving evidence against their abusers in court.

“This has ensured that these two individuals will be serving considerable prison sentences – and I hope this brings their many victims some comfort.”

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