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Monk jailed for schoolboys abuse
An 80-year-old monk has been sent to prison for 15 months for sexually abusing boys at a Roman Catholic school more than 30 years ago.Ordained priest William Manahan pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court to eight charges of sexually assaulting pupils.
The offences happened at Buckfast Abbey Preparatory School in Devon between 1971 and 1978. The school later closed.
Judge John Neligan said the victims had been groomed and were "too young, innocent and bewildered to complain".
The offences only came to light in 2006. The victims were aged between eight and 13 when the assaults took place.
The court heard Manahan entered the Benedictine monastic order in 1945 and had been ordained as a Catholic priest in 1952.
He was elected Father Prior at the abbey from 1968 to 1976 and again in 2003 but resigned the post when he was arrested.
Full story at BBC News.
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