Care home boss jailed over abuse

United Kingdom - The former principal of a Catholic-run care home has been jailed for 14 years for a catalogue of sex crimes against boys over a period of 20 years.

James Carragher, 64, was found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court of abusing boys at St William's Community Home in Market Weighton between 1969 and 1989.

Carragher, of Anlaby Road, Oxford, had been jailed in 1997 for abusing other boys at the same home.

Read the article at BBC NEWS dated Wednesday, 22 December, 2004