UNITED KINGDOM
Midhurst and Petworth Observer
Published on Thursday 14 February 2013
A RETIRED priest was sentenced to eight years in prison today (February 14), for 11 child sex offences.
Robert Coles, 71, of Upperton Road, Eastbourne, appeared at Brighton Crown Court and was sentenced for sexual offences against young boys.
At a hearing on December 14, at Chichester Crown Court, Coles pleaded guilty to 11 offences against a boy in Chichester between 1982 and 1984 and offences against two other boys, aged ten at the time.
The offences were: one offence of buggery and four indecent assaults against the first victim and three indecent assaults against each of the other two victims between 1978 and 1979.
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