The two girls ran as fast as they could, fleeing through the dense forest to avoid being spotted by anyone at the school.
The man they say was responsible for the abuse, head teacher Jack Mount, was charged with almost 100 sexual offences during his lifetime. There were horses, chickens and pigs to look after, and a swimming pool, squash and tennis courts. Children who came to the school from all over England were often awestruck by the scenes that greeted them.Philip Fowler, second row on the right, lived at the school for six yearsIt was home to roughly 37 boys when it opened in the mid-1960s.
He lived there for six years, only returning home for the holidays, and for the first four, says he saw nothing untoward. Then, when he was 13, he began to notice that night after night his roommate would wait for lights out, creep out of the dorm and disappear down the corridor. “In the coach house, the greenhouse, the squash court, the chicken shed,” he recalls. “I was his blond-haired, blue-eyed boy.”Philip says the abuse escalated in the coach house“It was empty, there were just chairs and old desks and a mattress. I knew what he was going to do and he told me ‘it’s OK, don’t be frightened’. I could hear him undoing his belt buckle.”“And then he was gone. He was like a ghost.
“It happened in the cellar, the changing room, the cottages by the farms, the squash court, the stairs, the big barn... a lot went on in that barn,” he says.“We didn’t talk about it among ourselves,” he says. “We were under the impression no-one could help us. I just kept saying to myself, ‘I have to survive, this is not going to be forever’.
“I gave them yes and no answers,” says Philip, now a 64-year-old grandfather. “I just couldn’t say it in front of my parents. They told me the school had been closed and I wouldn’t be going back there.” Meanwhile, he went back to running his school, welcoming a fresh set of pupils. He said 35 children had been taken away by local authorities after his arrest.
It was clear from his autobiography - self-published to mark his 90th birthday - he enjoyed numerous extra-marital romances while away from home and he censored little about the many women he wooed, even including details of sleeping with a woman in Bologna while his wife was pregnant.
I hope the devil dances on his grave forever.
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'Every time, juries and judges found in his favour. ' that is not evading Justice, he may or may not of carried out the alleged offences, we will never know the truth, but 5 courts didn't see enough evidence to convict, they aren't victims only alleged, BBC should post unbiasedly
All British people talk about are Asian grooming gangs and meanwhile....
Does the number of times someone has committed particular offences matter. Perceptual crime need higher penalties.
& the BBC failed to report on any of it until now
I seem to remember some fella called Jimmy fixed it so the BBC continued to knowingly allow abuse for some time.
COVERED UP BY POLICE COVERED UP BY C.C. COVERED UP BY JUDGES, COVERED UP BY GOVERNMENTS, COVERED UP BY THE ESTABLISHMENT, JUST ANOTHER SIR JIMMY SAVILLE FRIEND TO THE ESTABLISHMENT ELITE!!
Why did he get away with it?
Imagine if he were black 😳
Why does this repeatedly happen where people like him get away with it. Lessons from the Jimmy Saville and others need to be learned!
Absolutely disgusting, how he got away with it for so many years!
Cases such as Jack Mount show why itis important that the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) continue its work. A lot of IICSA's investigations are into cases that never got convictions, and shows how and where abuse very often occurs.
If not convicted of anything how can he have evaded justice or have victims?
You sure he didn’t work for the BBC? Or the royals? They love paedos.
It’s always the ones you don’t suspect Init
Grooming gang?
Shocking
Did he work for the BBC?
How? He was a monster
That Masons old man?
Sick pervert. These judges need investigating. No way does anyone get accused that many times & he be innocent.
Lot of comments on here think this man was innocent. This many allegations brought by CPS suggest otherwise. I wonder about the Judges motives- they look after their own.
He slipped through the cracks of the fingers of justice, as he slipped his fingers into the cracks of his victims.
So BBC is above justice now? Do they think they know better?
Horrible stories. But why do some people behave like animals ?
Evaded justice? That's an outrageous claim.
Evaded justice? What the fuck? You're the BBC ffs
In the context of these offences the name ‘Jack Mount’ is somewhat unfortunate!
May he burn in hell forever and ever 🤬
Pity saville wasn't caught during his lifetime......oh but it was all covered up wasn't it?
Did he evade justice? Looks like he was charged and faced trials. He may well be a raving pervert, but it’s dangerous to say he ‘evaded justice’.
Crazy.
No doubt someone will insist that the solution is to put our thumb on the scales...
For some balanced journalism is this tweet suggesting the Entire criminal justice system involved in 5 Trials in different courts where wrong. Do we not have the innocent until found guilty rule or that gentleman found not guilty in those trials rather than your “evaded justice”
Honestly, the motherfucker’s name was Jack.Mount.
They obviously failed to mount a decent case against Mr Mount.
Jack Mount off?
Damn..
He was probably in the same lodge as the magistrate and judge
White pedos always get away easily. Look at Jimmy Savile.
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