Spencers Wood Vicar Charged with Sex Offences

By Linda Fort
The Get Reading
January 9, 2014

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/spencers-wood-vicar-charged-sex-6475958

Man to appear at Newbury Magistrates' Court

The charges are alleged to involve three teenagers aged 13 to 17 years.

A 49-year-old Spencers Wood vicar was charged on Friday with a number of sexual offences against teenagers.

Reverend Peter Jarvis, of Clares Green Road, was charged with three counts of being an adult abusing a position of trust by inciting sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 17 and one of abusing a position of trust by inciting sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 17.

The vicar of St Michael's Church in Spencers Wood was also charged with causing or inciting a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity and a similar charge involving a boy aged 13 to 15 years.

He faces four further counts of causing or inciting a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity and one of engaging in sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 15.

The charges relate to three victims between 2009 and 2011.

Jarvis was released on bail to appear at Newbury Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, January 23.