Former East Yorkshire Children's Home Workers Jailed For Sex Abuse
The former head and ex-chaplain of St William's Catholic children's home in Market Weighton have been jailed for sex abuse of boys.
A former head of an East Yorkshire Catholic children's home who has already served 21 years in prison for sexually abusing boys has been jailed for a further nine years.
James Carragher was head from 1976 to 1990 of St William's - an approved school for boys with behavioural problems in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire.
Carragher, 75, was jailed for seven years in 1993 and a further 14 years in 2004 for offences he committed at St William's.
On Monday, he was jailed for nine years at Leeds Crown Court by a judge who said he and co-defendant Anthony McCallen had the boys at the school effectively trapped'' and addedIt is difficult to imagine a worse case of breach of trust''.
Judge Geoffrey Marson QC told Carragher he had to take into account the sentence he would have passed if he had heard all the evidence from all three trials - in 1993, 2004 and 2015.
The judge said this would have led him to a sentence of 30 years in prison, from which he deducted the 21 years he had already served.
McCallen, 69, a former chaplain at St William's, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a series of historical sex offences.
The jury heard how McCallen had also been convicted before - of abusing two boys in the 1990s when he was also found in possession of indecent photographs of boys, some of which he took through spyholes as they showered and used the toilet.
Judge Marson said:
Each of you has a long standing, deeply engrained sexual interest in teenage boys.
It's an interest, I have no doubt, that continues to persist.''
Carragher, of Cearns Road, Prenton, Merseyside, and McCallen, of Whernside Crescent, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, denied all the charges against them but were found guilty of a series of offences by a jury just before Christmas.