UNITED KINGDOM
Westmorland Gazette
A VICAR who sexually assaulted a teenager after becoming infatuated by his physique has been sent to prison for eight months.
Andrew Folks, 70, was priest-in-charge of the Langdale parish at the time he got to know the boy, Carlisle Crown Court heard.
As the boy grew up the married clergyman became more and more obsessed by his good looks, prosecuting counsel Katie Jones said.
And when the boy was about 15 Folks fondled the muscles on his chest and abdomen for his own sexual gratification, and then asked to look inside his trousers and touch his private parts, she said.
Folks – who is now retired and lives with his wife in Winfield Road, Sedbergh – pleaded guilty to one charge of sexually assaulting the boy and one of attempting to do so.
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