This article first appeared in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner on 14th May 2010. [1]  A man from Golcar, Yorkshire, tells of abuse at William Henry Smith School, which is a non-maintained residential school, located on the outskirts of Brighouse in West Yorkshire, England.  It provides education and care for boys with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties [SEBD].  The school has a total of 64 pupils, of which there are 56 weekly boarding pupils and 8 day pupils.   It is controlled by a board of fifteen governors, and has 52 full time and 31 part time members of staff. William Henry Smith School, on Boothroyd Lane, is a boarding school for boys with social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. 

     The sexually abused victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was a pupil there from the age of 12 to 16, between 1968 and 1972, and spoke out for the first time of his ordeal at the hands of a sordid school master.  The 54-year-old recalled how depraved Peter Beall would summon him into his office, make him put on silk shorts, subject him to beatings and then fondle him.  Beall – who was headmaster at William Henry Smith School in Rastrick in the 1960s, 70s and 80s – is thought to have died several years ago.  But, as reported last month, a bid has been launched by former pupils to sue the school governors and the trustees of the Smith Foundation – the charity behind it, as further revelations has shown this problem was endemic during to the 1960’s and 80’s.

     If you want to know more, are a victim of abuse at this same school, or for any other reason, then see the youtube video. - Here you’ll see two men who have set up a group to help other victims fight their cases;

     The man, from Golcar, decided to speak out after reading about the case in the Examiner.  He said: “I have never mentioned it to anyone before, but when I saw that and I thought it was about time somebody was speaking out.  “Something needs to be done.”  

     He said he would have left at 15, but was put under pressure by Beall to stay on for another year.  He remembers being sent to the headmaster’s office for trivial misdemeanours throughout his time there.  “You would get sent to see him for anything, it didn’t even have to be that bad,” he said.  “I used to dread going to his office – I would be physically sick. He would put these silky shorts on you, give you the cane and then put you on his lap.  Then he would molest you. He took great delight in it. I knew it was wrong, but what can you say? It’s the headmaster’s word against yours.” 

     The man said the abuse was widespread, but the boys did not talk about it.  And he recalled trying to avoid Beall in the corridors of the school.  The man later worked in textiles but is now unemployed. He has been unable to hold down a job for several years and claimed the abuse had a devastating effect on him.

     He was married for two years and had two children, but his relationship with his wife fell apart. He said: “It took me a long time to get used to girls. I didn’t start courting until I was in my 20s because I used to shy away. “We went to that school for a reason – to become better members of society – not to be abused. “But he made it worse for us.”  As reported in April, lawyers for a 47-year-old man have filed a writ in the High Court alleging Beall “emotionally, sexually and physically abused and assaulted him between October, 1976, and July, 1979”. [1]

     But Alan Collins, a solicitor for Hampshire-based firm Verisona, said there were many more cases.  Mr Collins said he was representing about 20 people who were seeking claims against the school.  He said: “It’s quite a wide-ranging case, over a long period of time. But there are lots of similarities among the experiences.” 

     In an unrelated criminal investigation, West Yorkshire Police have confirmed that five people have been arrested over allegations of sexual and physical abuse stretching back many years.   Four men, aged 64, 64, 66 and 43, and a 43-year-old woman are on Bail.  Mr Collins said the compensation case would await the outcome of the investigation.

[1] http://www.abuseclaimsblog.com/2010/05/15/william-henry-smith-schoo...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sdckGmw...

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