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Gregory Caroll, 66, a monk at Ampleforth Abbey, North Yorkshire, was sentenced to four years in prison after admitting 14 offences of indecent assault against boys aged under 15 between 1980 and 1987.
At York Crown Court it emerged that the priest first confessed to indecency with a pupil in 1987, but the school’s headmaster made no attempt to contact the police.
After his admission, Carroll was banished to a parish on the other side of the country but was allowed to return to the Benedictine monastery in 1999 when he admitted to having abused several pupils.
Police were finally involved in 2003 when a psychologist brought in by the abbey contacted social services after the abbey refused to release papers detailing Carroll’s past admissions of sexual abuse.
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