UNITED KINGDOM
North-West Evening Mail
A RETIRED South Lakes priest has been sentenced to eight months’ jail for the indecent assault of a teenage boy.
Andrew John Folks, of Winfield Road, Sedbergh, was priest-in-charge of a church in the Langdales when he abused the then 15-year-old.
The 70-year-old pleaded guilty in Carlisle Crown Court today to one count of indecently assaulting the victim and another of attempting to indecently assault him.
Judge Tina Landale described the offences as a gross breach of trust.
Folks was placed on the sex offenders for 10 year.
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