Boy abused ‘at hands of Catholic Church’ from age of two

  A former boys’ home resident was abused ‘at the hands of the Catholic Church’ from the age of two, a court heard today (Weds). The man, now in his sixties, told jurors he was taken into care at a young age but remembered his first day at St Francis children’s home in Shefford, Bedfordshire ‘like it was yesterday’. He described former carer James McCann, 80, as ‘the punished’, who would dish out ‘the clappers’ – slapping boys’ ears -…