• Downside School (LOMPO!) PAEDO PRIESTS... NASHTY!

    From Andrew 'Andrzej' Baron@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 26 21:13:37 2021
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_English_Benedictine_Congregation

    In 2004, a Benedictine monk was jailed for 18 months after taking indecent images of schoolboys
    and possessing child pornography when he was a teacher at Downside School.[25] In January 2012,
    Father Richard White, a monk who formerly taught at the school, was jailed for five years for
    gross indecency and indecent assault against a pupil in the late 1980s. White, 66, who was
    known to pupils as Father Nick, had been allowed to continue teaching after he was first caught
    abusing a child in 1987 and was able to go on to groom and assault another pupil in the junior
    school. He was placed on a restricted ministry after the second incident, but was not arrested
    until 2010. Two other Downside monks, also former teachers, received police cautions during
    an 18-month criminal trial.[26][27]

    In November 2017, the national Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) started
    to examine evidence of children being targeted for abuse at the school, along with another
    major Catholic school Ampleforth Abbey, as part of its investigation into the prevalence
    of paedophilia in the English Benedictine Congregation and its failures in protecting young
    people over many decades. IICSA heard that children at the two schools could still be "at risk".
    [28][29] The enquiry heard evidence that in 2012, the then headmaster, Father Leo Maidlow
    Davis, who was the senior monk at Downside Abbey from 2014 until 2018, made trips with a
    loaded wheelbarrow to a distant part of its grounds, where he made a bonfire, destroying
    staff files dating back to the early 1980s that might have contained evidence of child
    abuse at the school.

    Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, abbot of Downside from 1990 to 1998, was among three
    Downside abbots accused by Father Aidan Bellenger, in a private letter, of tolerating
    child abuse. Father Aidan, abbot from 2006 to 2014, said his predecessors "protected
    and encouraged" paedophile monks. Wrongdoers at the school were quietly moved between
    Benedictine monasteries and parishes. Reference was made to instructions from Rome to
    destroy documents that were damaging to priests. Father Leo insisted that his decision
    to make a bonfire of Downside's staff files was prompted by a desire to "get rid of
    unnecessary old material". He accepted that the files should, under safeguarding
    requirements, have been kept for 70 years, conceding that he may have unintentionally
    destroyed information about child abuse.[30]

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