Survivors of historical sexual abuse at the hands of a Horsham music teacher have applied to the Supreme Court to overturn "insultingly small" compensation payments.
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Reginald Adrian Crick was charged with 94 counts of sexual offences committed against boys under 16-years-old, resulting from complaints made by around 18 boys, nearly all from Horsham, in the late 1990s.
Crick, better known by his middle name, was a music teacher at Horsham Technical School from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
A new case has been brought against Crick's former employer, the Department of Education, who it is claimed: "placed Crick in a position of trust vis-a-vis the survivors and provided the occasion for achieving intimacy with the survivors."
Documents submitted to the Supreme Court and sighted by the Mail-Times claim Department of Education employees, including other teachers at Horsham Technical School, "knew, suspected or ought to have known or suspected that Crick was, or was at risk of sexually abusing students."