PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE- Former private school teacher convicted for multiple non recent sexual assaults
“An ex-private school teacher has been found guilty of numerous child sexual abuse offences against former pupils.
David James Clarke, 82, has been found guilty at Lewes Crown Court of 45 counts of child sexual abuse.
The Sussex police investigation and subsequent Crown Prosecution Service uncovered that while Clarke was a teacher at Newlands School, Seaford, East Sussex, committed 39 counts of indecent assault and four offences of indecency with a child, one offence of buggery. He was also convicted of making indecent images of children. He took advantage of running a photography club which isolated boys in a dark room where he would commit various acts of sexual abuse progressing from touching both under and over clothing, to masturbation, oral sexual abuse and buggery.
When he was arrested the police discovered indecent images of children on his desk top computer.”
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