Cover Up - 40 staff abused Ayrshire children in care

[TonyGosling]

When the youngsters complained, they were ignored or dismissed, even when the same complaints about specific abuse by specific staff members were made over years......
Just goes to show how easy it is in 21st century masonically policed, fear infested Britain to cover up even the most disgusting crimes. And they say they couldn't have covered up 7/7? See http://www.londonbombs.org.uk

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'40 staff abused residents of children's home'
RUSSELL JACKSON
This article: http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow.cfm?id=929812007
CHILDREN at a residential unit in Glasgow were sexually and physically assaulted by as many as 40 care workers, it was reported last night.

In a document due to be published today, Glasgow City Council will reveal "a significant core of staff" at Kerelaw residential unit in Ayrshire preyed on vulnerable youngsters, sometimes with the full knowledge of co-workers and superiors amid a "culture of fear and collusion". The council's report follows a three-year investigation by the council into the school for troubled youths and will reportedly warn that many of the carers involved in the abuse scandal are still working in Scotland's care sector.

The council's inquiry is believed to state: "The investigation shows that there were a significant core of staff, around 40 individuals, directly involved in the abuse of young people.

"However, a far larger number of staff had knowledge and information about abuse and potential abuse, and were unwilling or unable to address this abuse.

"It is also clear that there have been deficiencies in the quantity, quality, visibility and assertiveness of external management".

Accusations of abuse and neglect have swirled around Kerelaw for decades. The death of 14-year-old Graham Kerr after taking drugs in January 2001 was one of many high-profile incidents there.

It is understood the council report will not quantify the number of children who faced abuse, but there are concerns it could be in the hundreds because of alleged widespread use of rough or violent restraining, if not sexual assault, at the unit.

Glasgow City Council shut Kerelaw last year after removing the school's management in 2004.

It is believed the council is preparing to turn over evidence on 20 members of staff to the procurator-fiscal. Two of those teachers have reportedly already been jailed, another has died, and two have seen previous cases against them dropped.

There are still cases pending against 15 members of staff, five for sexual offences and 10 for "multiple assaults," it has been reported.

The school once had 165 care and teaching professionals and a maximum of 74 pupils, mostly boys aged over 13.

see also...
Lessons of Kerelaw
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/editorial/display.var.1470036.0.0. php

Mounting calls for public inquiry into reports of abuse at Kerelaw
http://www.theherald.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1473877.mostviewed.mounting _calls_for_public_inquiry_into_reports_of_abuse_at_kerelaw.php

[Mark Gobell]

This site is in support of the accused.

http://www.kerelawscandal.co.uk/

[Wokeman]

Yes, Mark
And there is no way I'll support it!.

[paul wright]

The problem is that those who oppose this thread in the human consciousness also hold their desires hidden.

[Mark Gobell]

Erm chaps - just in case there's any confusion here I simply googled Kerelaw Scandal and found the site.

I naturally assumed that it was about the scandal when I posted and then had to edit my post when I realised that it was a site in support of those thta have been accused.

[TonyGosling]

"I was contacted by a 12-year-old girl who had seen Muldoon throwing this other 12-year-old down concrete steps in the school. "It was called 'rag dolling'. A child would be picked up and thrown down - just like a rag doll..... The message was clear - I had rocked the boat and was to disappear. I was never told when to return.

17 June 2007
KERELAW COVER-UP
EXCLUSIVE BOSS FORCED OUT FOR EXPOSING ABUSE
By Norman Silvester
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_headline=kerelaw-cover-up--&method =full&objectid=19308735&siteid=64736-name_page.html

A FORMER boss at a scandal-hit secure school yesterday claimed he was forced out for blowing the whistle on abuse of pupils.

Stephen Malone, 36, who was head of addiction services, complained to senior management after a 12-year-old girl was thrown down stairs.

He was immediately sent on leave - and never asked to return.

Mr Malone spoke out after a report last week exposed abuse by 40 staff at Kerelaw School in Stevenston, Ayrshire, over a 30-year period.

He claims he described to deputy head Chris Johnson how the girl was thrown "like a rag doll" by teacher John Muldoon, who is now in jail.

Johnson, in turn, reported the incident to head Jim Hunter.

The next day, Mr Malone, of Troon, gave evidence at a hearing. He was told to go on holiday.

Last night he said: "I was contacted by a 12-year-old girl who had seen Muldoon throwing this other 12-year-old down concrete steps in the school.

"It was called 'rag dolling'. A child would be picked up and thrown down - just like a rag doll.

"The girl was covered in bruises and the girl who witnessed the attack was deeply traumatised.

"I was horrified and had no hesitation in telling my superiors.

"Jim Hunter told me, 'I don't know what to do with you.' The message was clear - I had rocked the boat and was to disappear. I was never told when to return.

"I was made to feel I should have kept my mouth shut.

"The abuse seemed to have been going on for a while but no one wanted to do anything about it, for fear of threatening their jobs and pensions.

"There is no doubt in my mind there was a cover-up.

"After a week on holiday, I became so stressed out, I went to the doctor and he signed me off.

"After two months on sick leave, I was called to a meeting and decided just to resign.

"But I'm glad I reported this attack, even though I lost my job."

Mr Malone joined Kerelaw in March 2003 as the senior project worker for the youth addiction service and left a year later.

He helped the 75 children with their drink and drug problems.

The Sunday Mail first exposed abuse at Kerelaw in June 2004, when we revealed three teachers had been suspended.

In February last year, Muldoon, 53, was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh for two and-a-half years over acts of indecency with girls.

Art teacher Matthew George, 56, was given 10 years for sexual and physical abuse.

Glasgow Council, who ran Kerelaw, spent three years investigating abuse at the school, which shut last year. Their report last week said children had been sexually and physically abused.

Many staff also knew of the abuse but kept quiet. Fourteen were sacked or disciplined.

Two axed were head Hunter and his deputy Johnson, although neither is accused of abuse.