UNITED KINGDOM
Liverpool Echo
•by Gary Stewart, Liverpool Echo
•May 26 2012
A MERSEYSIDE priest was told he is facing a lengthy jail sentence after admitting having sex with an underage boy.
Father Peter Hooper from St Luke’s Church in Bebington, Wirral, pleaded guilty to ten charges involving sexual activity with the teenager and inciting him to engage in such activity.
The offences are alleged to have take place at the St Luke the Physician diocese house in Church Road, Bebington, where regular masses are held in a small chapel.
The charges, involving the boy when he was aged 14 and 15, span a six month period ending on May 5 this year.
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