UNITED KINGDOM
Littlehampton Gazette
Published on 14/03/2013
A Church of England priest from West Sussex used the respectability of his cassock to groom and sexually abuse young boys along with his organist, a court has heard.
Father Keith Wilkie Denford, 78, breached the trust of the parents of two boys by molesting them over an 18-month period from when they were around 13 years old, it is alleged.
On one occasion it is claimed he got into a bath with one of the boys while aroused. On another he allegedly pressed himself up against a boy intimately with the words: “How nice it is to have a cuddle.”
Hove Crown Court heard that one time Denford, who was the vicar at St John the Evangelist Church in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, abused one of the boys aided by organist Michael Mytton, 68.
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