Congregation learns of charges against retired priest

UNITED KINGDOM
EADT

BY HOLLIE-RAE MERRICK Sunday, July 1, 2012

IPSWICH: Churchgoers were asked to offer up prayers for all those involved in a court case in which a retired priest is accused of 12 sex assaults on a child and an adult.

Father Haley Dossor – who retired as priest-in-charge at St Mary at the Elms, in Elm Street, Ipswich, in November 2006 – also faces three further charges of gross indecency with a child.

The 71-year-old, of Kirton, near Felixstowe, is due to appear before Ipswich magistrates for the first hearing of his case next Monday.

The allegations against Dossor – a former southern area chaplain to Suffolk Constabulary – are said to relate to the period between 1990 and 2004, and involve more than one alleged victim.

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