Scandal has surrounded the private school in recent years and an independent inquiry into child sexual abuse published a highly critical report in August 2018 that said “appalling sexual abuse [was] inflicted over decades on children as young as seven”. Ampleforth’s abbot, Cuthbert Madden, was removed from the post that year following allegations that he indecently assaulted pupils. It said: “The school failed to meet the ISS for more than a year before new leadership was brought in. We have lodged a complaint to Ofsted and await the outcome of that complaint.”A damning government-ordered independent inquiry into child sexual abuse this month found that between 1970 and 2015, the Catholic church in England and Wales received more than 900 complaints involving more than 3,000 instances of child sexual abuse, made against more than 900 individuals, including priests, monks and volunteers. “Child sexual abuse,” the report said, “was swept under the carpet.”

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2020 15:02 UTC