A monk who admitted having crushes on adolescent boys has been found guilty of sexually abusing two pupils at a North Yorkshire public school.
Former housemaster Michael James Callaghan, 71, worked at Ampleforth College, a prestigious private Catholic boarding school which charges about £40,000 a year for tuition.
Teesside Crown Court heard his offences took place between 1994 and 2013.
Callaghan, of Moortown, Leeds, was found guilty of one count of sexual assault related to a 17-year-old pupil and 12 charges of indecent assault connected to a pupil aged between 14 and 18.
The court heard how Callaghan, who was known as Father James, groomed and repeatedly indecently assaulted one boy over three years in the 1990s. He sexually assaulted a 17-year-old in 2013 by squeezing his bottom during a hug.
Jurors were told he “ingratiated himself” with the first victim by giving him cigarettes and buying him gifts.
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