Michael Ingram (psychologist)

Michael Ingram (c. 1932 – 26 August 2000) was an English child psychologist, Catholic priest and convicted sex offender.

Biography

Ordained as a priest in 1964, he trained as a child counsellor at Oxford. He was a Dominican priest at Holy Cross Priory in Leicester.[1][2] He worked as a child psychologist at St. Thomas' Hospital, London.[3]

Ingram presented research at Swansea University's 1977 Love and Attraction conference.[3] He criticised the prosecution of child sex abuse cases in a presentation at the Second International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect in London in 1978.[4] According to Ruth Gledhill, Ingram argued that "paedophiles could do more good to their victims than harm." Ingram's research was repudiated by Bishop of Nottingham James McGuinness[5][6] and he left ordained ministry in 1991.[1]

In August 2000, Ingram was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault, gross indecency and serious sexual offence against six altar boys at Holy Cross Priory between 1970 and 1978.[1] Shortly before the verdict was handed down, Ingram drove his car into a wall at high speed and was in intensive care in a prison health care facility when the verdict was issued.[1] Ingram died on 26 August 2000 while in custody at HM Prison Leicester.[7]

Further reading

  • Scorer, Richard (2014). Betrayed: The English Catholic Church and the Sex Abuse Crisis. New York: Biteback Publishing. pp. 68–78. ISBN 978-1-84954-682-9.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gledhill, Ruth (August 15, 2000). Ex-priest guilty of sex attacks. The Times (London, England), p. 5.
  2. ↑ "My concern is for the child -- not the molester". Leicester Mercury. September 21, 1978. p. 17.
  3. 1 2 "Sex offenders 'can aid child'". The Sunday Telegraph. September 4, 1977. p. 3.
  4. ↑ "Priest returns to child-sex fray". The Guardian. September 14, 1978. p. 2.
  5. ↑ "Sex Therapy Clinics Win 86pc Success". The Guardian. September 9, 1977. p. 22.
  6. ↑ "Priest hits back over child sex". Western Daily Press. September 10, 1977. p. 7.
  7. ↑ "Sex offender dies". The Northern Echo. 28 August 2000. p. 3.
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