UNITED KINGDOM
Lancashire Telegraph
A VICAR has been suspended after he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an 11-year-old boy.
Rev Joe Fielder, 44, the priest-in-charge at St John’s Church in Baxenden, was arrested at the village Vicarage in Langford Street.
He has been suspended from his role at the church, which he has held for three years, while an internal church investigation is completed, diocese officials have confirmed.
Police said the alleged victim called police at 7.20am on Tuesday, February 7, to report an assault.
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