Fordingbridge Monk Jailed for Abusing Children
This looks a nice place, a solid foundation for your child and only £26,000 per child per year.
But for twenty years this pillar of Catholic education in Britain protected, not its children, but one of its teaching staff who raped children in the school's care.
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It protected Richard White, who called himself Father Nicholas, by keeping quiet about his behaviour and allowed him to go on and rape other children at 50p a time, the amount he paid the children.
Richard White now living at Hyde near Fordingbridge in the New Forest, was sentenced to five years.
Rob Hastings, a 35 year IT consultant, who was one of White's victims, has agreed to waive his anonymity to complain about the school's behaviour, saying; "The apology wasn't even an apology, it was saying 'we have done everything right'. I feel that Downside had been infiltrated by paedophiles at all levels. The school needs to admit its level of failure to support the safeguarding of children. Once it has done that it is in a place to move forward and make it a safer place."
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School says "the School has been damaged".
