Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

The experience lives in the memory and seems to become more traumatic to recall as time passes. There are well established procedures now for investigating historic sex abuse. The police will gather up educational, medical and social services records. These will be scrutinised to see if the matters ...

There were other aspects of his behaviour that were inappropriate. They all involved naked boys.

He wasn't convicted of filming boys. That was relevant to show that Martin had an inappropriate interest in boys.

He was convicted of putting the pupil in his [Martin's] own bed and then touching his penis. The boy was 10 and very homesick.

That was demonstrably inappropriate, even in 1976.

There can be no denying that historical cases are extremely hard to investigate and successfully prosecute, One of the features of historic cases is that the victim has not suddenly got the idea in their head that they have been abused. Very often, the victim has disclsoed to family/friends/profess...

One needs to be very careful about impugning the verdict in Martin's trial. He was unanimously convicted by the jury. You seemed somewhat less convinced as to the validity of the jury's verdict in my case, when invited to uphold it by 'yamaha', I seem to recall. Odd. It would help greatly to know w...

One needs to be very careful about impugning the verdict in Martin's trial. He was unanimously convicted by the jury.

DazedandConfused wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:31 pm I keep coming back to the cycling shorts parties and I’m surprised there haven’t been arrests yet.

Me too.

There are two that could happen. They were at the cycling shorts parties.

Otherwise I would have thought the investigation has probably run its course.

The publicity means that anyone likely to come forward probably has.

One of the difficulties is that Webb and Burr in the 70s appear to have been lone wolves while Dobbie, Husband etc seem to have been part of a ring. Webb, for example, may have interfered with every boy in the dormitory, while Dobbie and Co seem to have targeted specific individuals. Factor in that ...

Webb then.

We know that was covered up too.

The starting point could be Karim. We know that was covered up.

The usual stuff from the school.

Has any other school ever had so many teachers convicted of sexual offences against pupils?

He has been the subject of report to the police Spoony.

The photo IS of McCall.

Some explanation of Martin's sentence.

To arrive at a sentence of 4 years, the judge must have accepted that the victim was caused severe psychological harm and that Martin acted in abuse of trust.

This probably explains why the sentencing part of the hearing took nearly an hour.