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In 2004, a Benedictine monk was jailed for 18 months after taking indecent images of schoolboys
and possessing child pornography when he was a teacher at Downside School.[25] In January 2012,
Father Richard White, a monk who formerly taught at the school, was jailed for five years for
gross indecency and indecent assault against a pupil in the late 1980s. White, 66, who was
known to pupils as Father Nick, had been allowed to continue teaching after he was first caught
abusing a child in 1987 and was able to go on to groom and assault another pupil in the junior
school. He was placed on a restricted ministry after the second incident, but was not arrested
until 2010. Two other Downside monks, also former teachers, received police cautions during
an 18-month criminal trial.[26][27]

In November 2017, the national Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) started
to examine evidence of children being targeted for abuse at the school, along with another
major Catholic school Ampleforth Abbey, as part of its investigation into the prevalence
of paedophilia in the English Benedictine Congregation and its failures in protecting young
people over many decades. IICSA heard that children at the two schools could still be "at risk".
[28][29] The enquiry heard evidence that in 2012, the then headmaster, Father Leo Maidlow
Davis, who was the senior monk at Downside Abbey from 2014 until 2018, made trips with a
loaded wheelbarrow to a distant part of its grounds, where he made a bonfire, destroying
staff files dating back to the early 1980s that might have contained evidence of child
abuse at the school.

Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, abbot of Downside from 1990 to 1998, was among three
Downside abbots accused by Father Aidan Bellenger, in a private letter, of tolerating
child abuse. Father Aidan, abbot from 2006 to 2014, said his predecessors "protected
and encouraged" paedophile monks. Wrongdoers at the school were quietly moved between
Benedictine monasteries and parishes. Reference was made to instructions from Rome to
destroy documents that were damaging to priests. Father Leo insisted that his decision
to make a bonfire of Downside's staff files was prompted by a desire to "get rid of
unnecessary old material". He accepted that the files should, under safeguarding
requirements, have been kept for 70 years, conceding that he may have unintentionally
destroyed information about child abuse.[30]

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Father Paul Couch was jailed for ten years in 2007, on two counts of serious sexual assault
and 11 of indecent assault.[10] He had committed the offences against six boys between 1972
and 1993 during two periods at Buckfast Abbey Preparatory School in Devon; he was a Royal
Navy chaplain from 1978 until 1983 and again from 1992.[11]

Father William Manahan pleaded guilty in 2007 at Exeter Crown Court to eight charges of
sexually assaulting pupils at the same school between 1971 and 1978, and was jailed
for 15 months.[12] The school closed in 1994.

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Father John Kinsey of Belmont Abbey, Herefordshire was sentenced to five years at Worcester
Crown Court in 2005 by Judge Andrew Geddes for a series of serious offences relating to
assaults on schoolboys attending Belmont Abbey School in the mid 1980s.[16][17] Due to
falling pupil numbers, the school closed in the early 1990s.[18]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_English_Benedictine_Congregation

n 1995 Fr Bernard Green, then a housemaster at Ampleforth College, was arrested after indecently
assaulting a sleeping boy in one of the school's dormitories. He received two years' probation
for an incident which was said to have "petrified" the boy concerned.[13][14]

In 2005, Fr Piers Grant-Ferris admitted 20 incidents between 1966 and 1975 including beating boys
bare-handed on the buttocks, and taking temperatures rectally. The Yorkshire Post reported in 2005
that former Abbot Basil Hume did not call in police when the initial incident came to light in
1975, but removed Father Grant-Ferris. Several other incidents came to light in 2003, when the
abbey hired a psychologist to conduct risk assessments on staff.[15]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_English_Benedictine_Congregation

In 2004, a Benedictine monk was jailed for 18 months after taking indecent images of schoolboys
and possessing child pornography when he was a teacher at Downside School.[25] In January 2012,
Father Richard White, a monk who formerly taught at the school, was jailed for five years for
gross indecency and indecent assault against a pupil in the late 1980s. White, 66, who was
known to pupils as Father Nick, had been allowed to continue teaching after he was first caught
abusing a child in 1987 and was able to go on to groom and assault another pupil in the junior
school. He was placed on a restricted ministry after the second incident, but was not arrested
until 2010. Two other Downside monks, also former teachers, received police cautions during
an 18-month criminal trial.[26][27]

In November 2017, the national Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) started
to examine evidence of children being targeted for abuse at the school, along with another
major Catholic school Ampleforth Abbey, as part of its investigation into the prevalence
of paedophilia in the English Benedictine Congregation and its failures in protecting young
people over many decades. IICSA heard that children at the two schools could still be "at risk".
[28][29] The enquiry heard evidence that in 2012, the then headmaster, Father Leo Maidlow
Davis, who was the senior monk at Downside Abbey from 2014 until 2018, made trips with a
loaded wheelbarrow to a distant part of its grounds, where he made a bonfire, destroying
staff files dating back to the early 1980s that might have contained evidence of child
abuse at the school.

Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, abbot of Downside from 1990 to 1998, was among three
Downside abbots accused by Father Aidan Bellenger, in a private letter, of tolerating
child abuse. Father Aidan, abbot from 2006 to 2014, said his predecessors "protected
and encouraged" paedophile monks. Wrongdoers at the school were quietly moved between
Benedictine monasteries and parishes. Reference was made to instructions from Rome to
destroy documents that were damaging to priests. Father Leo insisted that his decision
to make a bonfire of Downside's staff files was prompted by a desire to "get rid of
unnecessary old material". He accepted that the files should, under safeguarding
requirements, have been kept for 70 years, conceding that he may have unintentionally
destroyed information about child abuse.[30]

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Father Paul Couch was jailed for ten years in 2007, on two counts of serious sexual assault
and 11 of indecent assault.[10] He had committed the offences against six boys between 1972
and 1993 during two periods at Buckfast Abbey Preparatory School in Devon; he was a Royal
Navy chaplain from 1978 until 1983 and again from 1992.[11]

Father William Manahan pleaded guilty in 2007 at Exeter Crown Court to eight charges of
sexually assaulting pupils at the same school between 1971 and 1978, and was jailed
for 15 months.[12] The school closed in 1994.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_English_Benedictine_Congregation

n 1995 Fr Bernard Green, then a housemaster at Ampleforth College, was arrested after indecently
assaulting a sleeping boy in one of the school's dormitories. He received two years' probation
for an incident which was said to have "petrified" the boy concerned.[13][14]

In 2005, Fr Piers Grant-Ferris admitted 20 incidents between 1966 and 1975 including beating boys
bare-handed on the buttocks, and taking temperatures rectally. The Yorkshire Post reported in 2005
that former Abbot Basil Hume did not call in police when the initial incident came to light in
1975, but removed Father Grant-Ferris. Several other incidents came to light in 2003, when the
abbey hired a psychologist to conduct risk assessments on staff.[15]

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Father John Kinsey of Belmont Abbey, Herefordshire was sentenced to five years at Worcester
Crown Court in 2005 by Judge Andrew Geddes for a series of serious offences relating to
assaults on schoolboys attending Belmont Abbey School in the mid 1980s.[16][17] Due to
falling pupil numbers, the school closed in the early 1990s.[18]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_English_Benedictine_Congregation

n 1995 Fr Bernard Green, then a housemaster at Ampleforth College, was arrested after indecently
assaulting a sleeping boy in one of the school's dormitories. He received two years' probation
for an incident which was said to have "petrified" the boy concerned.[13][14]

In 2005, Fr Piers Grant-Ferris admitted 20 incidents between 1966 and 1975 including beating boys
bare-handed on the buttocks, and taking temperatures rectally. The Yorkshire Post reported in 2005
that former Abbot Basil Hume did not call in police when the initial incident came to light in
1975, but removed Father Grant-Ferris. Several other incidents came to light in 2003, when the
abbey hired a psychologist to conduct risk assessments on staff.[15]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_English_Benedictine_Congregation

In 2004, a Benedictine monk was jailed for 18 months after taking indecent images of schoolboys
and possessing child pornography when he was a teacher at Downside School.[25] In January 2012,
Father Richard White, a monk who formerly taught at the school, was jailed for five years for
gross indecency and indecent assault against a pupil in the late 1980s. White, 66, who was
known to pupils as Father Nick, had been allowed to continue teaching after he was first caught
abusing a child in 1987 and was able to go on to groom and assault another pupil in the junior
school. He was placed on a restricted ministry after the second incident, but was not arrested
until 2010. Two other Downside monks, also former teachers, received police cautions during
an 18-month criminal trial.[26][27]

In November 2017, the national Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) started
to examine evidence of children being targeted for abuse at the school, along with another
major Catholic school Ampleforth Abbey, as part of its investigation into the prevalence
of paedophilia in the English Benedictine Congregation and its failures in protecting young
people over many decades. IICSA heard that children at the two schools could still be "at risk".
[28][29] The enquiry heard evidence that in 2012, the then headmaster, Father Leo Maidlow
Davis, who was the senior monk at Downside Abbey from 2014 until 2018, made trips with a
loaded wheelbarrow to a distant part of its grounds, where he made a bonfire, destroying
staff files dating back to the early 1980s that might have contained evidence of child
abuse at the school.

Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, abbot of Downside from 1990 to 1998, was among three
Downside abbots accused by Father Aidan Bellenger, in a private letter, of tolerating
child abuse. Father Aidan, abbot from 2006 to 2014, said his predecessors "protected
and encouraged" paedophile monks. Wrongdoers at the school were quietly moved between
Benedictine monasteries and parishes. Reference was made to instructions from Rome to
destroy documents that were damaging to priests. Father Leo insisted that his decision
to make a bonfire of Downside's staff files was prompted by a desire to "get rid of
unnecessary old material". He accepted that the files should, under safeguarding
requirements, have been kept for 70 years, conceding that he may have unintentionally
destroyed information about child abuse.[30]

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Father Paul Couch was jailed for ten years in 2007, on two counts of serious sexual assault
and 11 of indecent assault.[10] He had committed the offences against six boys between 1972
and 1993 during two periods at Buckfast Abbey Preparatory School in Devon; he was a Royal
Navy chaplain from 1978 until 1983 and again from 1992.[11]

Father William Manahan pleaded guilty in 2007 at Exeter Crown Court to eight charges of
sexually assaulting pupils at the same school between 1971 and 1978, and was jailed
for 15 months.[12] The school closed in 1994.

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