UNITED KINGDOM
The Australian
AAP
November 20, 2012
A FORMER canon of a British cathedral has been jailed for four years for sexually abusing three teenage boys.
Ronald Johns, the 75-year-old former canon of Carlisle Cathedral in northern England, had pleaded guilty to sexual offences against three boys from 1983 to 1991.
The victims were aged between 14 and 17 at the time.
“As you accept, you have ruined your life and brought disgrace upon yourself,” judge Rabinder Singh said as he sentenced the former clergyman on Monday.
The court heard that when the allegations were first made in 1993, Johns’ bishop demoted him to a village parish instead of telling police.
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