Scandal
A former priest who taught at the school was jailed for sexually assaulting pupils between 1987 and 1995. The youngest victim was a boy of 12. In 1999, Lancashire Constabulary conducted Operation Whiting, which looked into allegations of abuse at the school dating back to the 1970s. This resulted in two convictions, one of which was quashed on appeal. On 14 May 2002, a parliamentary committee member described the operation as "a scandal in itself" and an "expensive... fiasco".
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