Sex, Priests and Secret Codes. Clerical Whispers: Sex abuse in private schools. Previous reports into child abuse by clergy showed poor children were especially vulnerable.
But the latest audit indicates that the middle classes were also at risk. THEY ARE BASTIONS of privilege that for generations have taken in the sons of Catholic middle-class families and moulded them into the leaders of tomorrow. A SEX abuse victim is set to sue the Catholic Church after a former priest who attacked him was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his sickening crimes.
Related content Michael Clifford, of Chelmsley Wood, Birmingham, was just 11 years old when he was assaulted by Alexander Bede Walsh at Father Hudson’s Home in Coleshill. The pervert, aged 58, was found guilty of sexually abusing eight boys aged eight to16 between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s. Last night Mr Clifford, now aged 44, further revealed that he was prompted to report the abuse he suffered at the hands of Bede Walsh following an investigation into Father Hudson’s Home. He waived his automatic right to anonymity following our reports on the former Catholic children’s home, which closed in 1988. Comments (0) A PAEDOPHILE priest from Abbots Bromley has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of 21 sexual offences against eight boys.
Alexander Bede Walsh, aged 58, of Church Lane, was convicted by a jury last month, following a trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court. He was found guilty of 19 counts of indecent assault and two counts of buggery. Walsh, who was remanded in custody, was sentenced at Stokeon- Trent Crown Court on Friday. The offences were all committed on boys aged between eight and 16 in the 1970s, 80s and 90s when he served as a priest. Lord McAlpine to sue tweeters who linked him to sex abuse as BBC pays £185,000 damages.
Lord McAlpine’s lawyers have hired a team of experts to collate the offending Twitter messages, including those that have been deleted, as well as so-called “re-tweets” in which one user republishes a message posted by someone else.
The action was described as “unprecedented” by Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice, who added that there was no reason Twitter users should be treated differently from newspapers that published defamatory comments. In other developments: The BBC agreed to pay Lord McAlpine damages of £185,000 plus costs over the Newsnight report of Nov 2. Lord McAlpine told friends that Lord Patten of Barnes, the chairman of the BBC Trust, should consider his position. “¿Quieres una compañera?”
There was sex in the air alright, but it certainly wasn’t free. Do you want a companion? This was the token line thrown out to the naïve gringos. Evidence Catholic Church In Scotland Buried 20 Child Sex Abuse Allegations. The BBC says it has seen evidence that the bishops in the Catholic Church in Scotland knew of 20 allegations of child sex abuse by priests between 1985 and 1995.
The revelations comes after the recent resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien over his admitted “inappropriate behavior” with young priests as far back as 1980. O’Brien was not accused of child sex abuse.