February 2015
Paedophile care worker with Liverpool Social Services sexually abused children for years
A perverted former residential care worker living in Carlisle who abused two boys almost 40 years ago has been jailed for 13 years.
Philip Savage, 62, who was jailed for 15 years in 1996 for abusing nine other boys at homes in the north west, was told by Judge Clement Goldstone, QC, that his behaviour had involved “paedophile depravity.”
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Savage, who has been living at Cumberland Court, Denton Holme, befriended the two victims in the same way that he had with the other victims and then he abused them in similar ways.
The jury heard that one of Savage’s two victims is now in jail for a double murder many years ago.
Savage had abused him when he was 11 and 12 and the victim spoke of realising that other members of staff had been involved in the sexual and physical abuse of boys in Dyson Hall in Merseyside between 1979 and 1981.
(Dyson Hall in Fazakerley was a residential Special School for boys with emotional and behavioural difficulties)
He said that his reasons for coming forward now was he felt it would be bad if Savage was “getting away with it, for doing things to people who were just kids.”
The other victim told how the abuse had profoundly affected his character and how it had left him an angry person for years, and made him unable to trust anyone.
He spoke of wanting closure and wished he had revealed his ordeal when he was younger, said Ben Jones, prosecuting.
Savage, who did not give evidence, had denied a total of 12 sexual offences against the two lads, but the jury took just over two hours to unanimously convict him. The judge told him that he will have to have his name on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
According to a group which campaigns to expose the evil of child abuse, Savage had tried back in 1974, at the age of 21, to have counselling.
An earlier court hearing, said the group, showed that his medical records included a letter of referral to a psychologist from the counselling service.
Two years after seeking therapy for his attraction to young boys, he got a job as a residential care worker with Liverpool Social Services. He went on to sexually abuse children for several years.
