Retired Suffolk priest jailed for sexual abuse

UNITED KINGDOM
ITV

A retired Anglican priest who sexually abused teenage boys has been jailed. Father John Haley Dossor, pleaded guilty to six counts of indecent assault relating to two boys aged as young as 13.

Norwich Crown Court also heard that Dossor accepted he had abused a third boy between 15 and 20 times, although he was not charged with these attacks.

The offences happened when the 71-year-old, of Kirton, near Felixstowe, Suffolk, was working at St Mary’s Church in Hadleigh in the early 1990s.

Jailing Dossor for one year and 10 months, Judge Mark Lucraft said: “You sexually abused these teenage boys who were committed to your care for recreation and education.

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