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Crosfields School: Reading headteacher Frank Skipwith jailed
Former teacher Frank Skipwith, from Oxfordshire, was sentenced on Monday, January 31 at Hove Crown Court after he abused a number of children at two different boarding schools over a 12-year period. According to reports, Skipwith become headteacher at Crosfields...
Robert Rixon – Swimming teacher sexually abused young girls
A school swimming teacher carried out a long-standing "campaign of sexual abuse" on five young girls he taught, leaving them with deep-rooted psychological trauma. Over a 16-year period, Robert John Rixon sexually abused his victims who were as young as 11. Swansea...
IICSA – Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse – Final Report
The Inquiry has published its final Report today - Thursday 20 October 2022. It follows: • 325 days of public hearings with 725 witnesses • 2,457,543 pages of evidence being processed • The publication of the Interim report, 19 investigation reports, 24 research...
Former Oldham primary school teacher jailed for sexual abuse
A former teacher who sexually abused 19 pupils while working at two primary schools has been jailed. Christopher Pickup, 76, of Underwood Way, Shaw, had attacked the pupils at two schools in Oldham in the 1970s and 80s, Greater Manchester Police said. He was convicted...
Gerald Highgate jailed for abusing young boys
Gerald Highgate, 83, from Hailsham, East Sussex, was found guilty of 30 counts relating to non-recent child sexual abuse at Guildford Crown Court after preying on young boys throughout his adult life. Highgate used his position of trust at sports and social clubs in...
Former teacher jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing pupils
A retired English teacher and school rugby coach has been jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing 19 pupils at a Yorkshire school between the 1970s and 1990s. Peter Andrew Holmes, of King Street, Bristol, was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court yesterday (Friday,...
Former primary school teacher jailed for child sexual abuse
A former primary school teacher has been jailed for the sexual abuse of two young girls. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Charles Ellis, 63, of Chester, abused the girls on separate occasions. He abused a pupil in 2016. He also abused an...
Choirmaster who sexually abused 14 boys at churches in Greater Manchester and Cheshire is jailed
A former choirmaster who 50 years ago sexually abused 14 boys at churches across the North West has finally been jailed. Richard Owen, also known as Franklyn Stanowski, met the children after they joined the choir at churches in Winsford, Knutsford...
Michael Hudson former canoe instructor jailed for abusing young boys
A former canoe instructor who was found guilty of abusing boys has been jailed. Michael Hudson was found guilty of non-recent indecency offences on young boys when he worked in North West Leicestershire from the 1970s into the 2010s. It comes after Leicestershire...
Hove paedophile Michael Green jailed for more sex offences
AN PERVERT ice hockey coach and sports teacher has been sentenced for a third time for another series of historic sexual offences against young boys. Michael James Green, 80, previously of Neville Avenue in Hove, denied 12 counts of buggery and indecent assaults when...
Horsham catholic priest Anthony White jailed for child sex abuse
Father Anthony White, 64, from Cross-in-Hand, East Sussex, plied the boy with drink before raping him after he visited his house, Sussex Police said. Tao Qazi, White's victim, told the BBC he has struggled to find happiness since the attack and cannot understand why...
Survivor of Isle of Wight paedophile Michael Smith speaks out
A survivor of vile child sex abuse hopes waiving his right to anonymity and telling his harrowing story will give others the courage to come forward and help bring paedophiles to justice. Gary Hill's abuser Michael Smith was jailed this week. Gary hopes his...
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