UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph & Argus
By Jenny Loweth, T&A Reporter
Mormon church missionary Matthias Heinrichs
A church missionary has been jailed for sexually abusing a 14-year-old schoolgirl he preached to and “chastised”.
Matthias Heinrichs incited the teenager to send him naked photos and graphically described how he wanted to take her virginity, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.
He groomed the girl after meeting her while working as a missionary at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Keighley.
The teenager, who was not a member of the Mormon church’s congregation, still suffered nightmares about what “Elder Heinrichs” did to her, Judge John Potter said, jailing Heinrichs for two years. The 23-year-old, a Dutch national, stood in the dock with his head bowed and his hands clasped as the judge told him he had enouraged the girl to engage in child pornography purely for his sexual gratification.
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