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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_English_Benedictine_Congregation
David Smith, jailed May 2007, was an assistant headmaster at Douai School, Upper Woolhampton,
West Berkshire, from 1975. He sexually abused three boys in one year at the school and
continued to sexually abuse as an Anglican priest from 1981, sexually abusing a series of
boys over a 30-year period.[19][20]
Roman Catholic Benedictine monk/priest, Father Michael Creagh was jailed in November 2017
for two counts of child sexual abuse while he was a house master in 1992 at Douai School.
He had previous convictions for paedophilic offences, committed elsewhere in the 1970s.[21][22]
David Lowe, a paedophile and serial sexual abuser, had sexually abused young boys, firstly, at
Westminster Cathedral Choir School, London, and, secondly at the Roman Catholic Benedictine
Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. Subsequent to and despite his history, he moved to Douai
Abbey. A married man and a father, Lowe was appointed Deputy Headmaster at the school in
the 1990s, and there is no suggestion that he sexually abused at Douai. Lowe was jailed
for 10 years in 2015 for indecent assaults.[23]
Father Terence Charles Fitzpatrick, Roman Catholic priest/monk of Douai School, whilst he
was Roman Catholic parish priest at St Osburg's Roman Catholic church in Coventry, sexually
abused a woman, Pamela Brown, between 1989 and 1991. She had psychological issues and
approached him for guidance. Fitzpatrick duped her into performing sexual activity "games"
under the pretense that they were part of the help she required from him, and stating that
the sexual activity was carried out in the name of God. Brown was awarded damages at
Birmingham County Court.[24] Fitzpatrick returned to Douai Abbey and continued to serve
four Roman Catholic parishes in Berkshire.
The Douai Abbey school closed in 1999.
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