Taunton child sex abuse vicar David Roberts jailed for 12 years

UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

A former vicar has been jailed for sexually abusing a teenage boy in the 1980s.

David Roberts, 68, of Taunton, pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual offences, including indecent assault.

Taunton Crown Court heard the abuse occurred when he was the chaplain at a school in Somerset.

Sentencing Roberts, former vicar of St John’s Church in the town, to 12 years in prison, the judge said it was a “gross abuse of trust”.

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