A 52-year-old man has been charged with indecently assaulting a boy, following an investigation into historic allegations of child abuse in North Wales.
David Challinor, from Mold, has been charged with one offence, which allegedly took place against a 13 to 14-year-old boy between 1986 and 1988.
He was bailed to appear at Wrexham Magistrates Court on July 9 2014.
Mr Challinor is the 10th person to be charged by Operation Pallial, an investigation into recent allegations of historical abuse in the care system in North Wales.
The investigation is led by National Crime Agency Director General Keith Bristow.
David Alan Challinor joined the Community on 24 June 1980 at the age of 19 years after taking a pre-qualification course in residential care (PCSC) for two years at Aston College, Wrexham, on leaving school. He was employed initially as a residential care worker at Cotsbrook Hall, where he received an official caution after only three months for throwing an object (a clipboard) in the direction of some boys, causing superficial injury to one of them.
Challinor moved to Bryn Alyn Hall in the same capacity in 1980, becoming Deputy Team Leader there on 1 January 1985 and a Team Leader on 7 April 1987.
He remained at Bryn Alyn Hall until September 1991 when he began the two year CQSW course at Cartrefle College and then Plas Coch.
On completing that course successfully he was appointed Deputy Officer-in-Charge of Gatewen Hall from 13 July 1993 but he moved to Pentre Saeson Hall in May 1994 as Acting Unit Manager and became Manager 12 months later until it closed in March 1997 (like Evans his P45 showed his employment to have ended on 30 June 1996 for unexplained reasons).
