Carer at Catholic children's home sexually abused boys and terrorised them with 'clappers' punishment, court hears

A "cruel and sadistic" carer molested boys at a Catholic children's home and terrorised them with a punishment known as 'the clappers', a court heard. James McCann, 80, is accused of 52 charges of violent and sexual assaults on 26 boys aged between eight and 12.
The Old Bailey heard on Monday (12 September) that McCann repeatedly abused the boys at St Francis children's home in Shefford, Bedfordshire, in the 1960s and 1970s.

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