UNITED KINGDOM
Calgary Herald
By The Associated Press
November 19, 2012
LONDON – A retired Church of England priest has been jailed for four years after admitting that he sexually abused three boys between 1983 and 1991.
The case against 75-year-old Rev. Ronald Johns revealed that the bishop of Carlisle had responded to another boy’s complaint in 1993 by moving the priest but taking no further action.
Judge Rabinder Singh, presiding Monday in Carlisle Crown Court, noted that a pre-sentence report described Johns’ behaviour as manipulative and predatory.
When a complaint was made in 1993, the late Bishop Ian Harland removed Johns from his post and reassigned him to a village church.
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