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   Plenty of British groomers to learn from... tragic.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_Englis   
   _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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