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Bruce Roth jailed for 11 years for sex abuse

By Becky Barnes
July 24, 2012

An ex-Wellington College housemaster has been jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing five boys.

Bruce Roth, 46, was a maths teacher at the £30,000-a-year prestigious boarding school in Duke's Ride Crowthorne and touched three boys in his care.

He abused two boys at King's School, Rochester, where he taught previously.

Roth was convicted of 17 charges, against boys aged between eight and 15 and spanning a period of 22 years.

Ex-Wellington College teacher Bruce Roth convicted of sex abuse

The jury of six men and six women at Reading Crown Court took just over 18 hours to deliberate on their verdicts.

Judge Simon Davis said: "You were not able to deceive this jury. Your choice, mainly to contest the case means that each individual complainant came to this court to relive the events to which you had subjected them over the past 20 years or so. To state there is only one sentence appropriate in the circumstances is to state the obvious; nothing but an immediate and substantial of imprisonment is appropriate."

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The two headteachers involved in this Child Protection Policy failure should hang their heads in total shame and consider their respective positions.

The parents of the students involved deserved better, they were failed in a manner that defies logic!

Will they take responsibility?

I doubt it!

Education Observer, Wokingham
03/08/2012 at 13:11

The two Heads involved in this abject failure of Child Protection Policies at the two schools should be looking at their own positions, they failed the students and they failed the parents and, above all, they failed the system set up in this country to protect pupils from the very people they appointed to positions of trust.

Will they consider their positions?

Or will their time be devoted elsewhere to say how good their school is or to create even more political biographies?

Resignations? I doubt it somehow!