Liverpool region priest who blamed his teenage victim jailed

UNITED KINGDOM
Click Liverpool

by Chris Bradley. Published Fri 15 Jun 2012

A Roman Catholic priest who told police he had been “emotionally raped” by a 15 year-old boy whom he was caught performing a sex act on has been jailed.

Father Peter Hooper was sentenced to seven years in prison after admitting 10 counts of sexual activity with a child during a “clandestine” period of abuse on the boy.

It began in December last year, when the victim, who cannot be named, was just 14 years-old.

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