UNITED KINGDOM
BBC NEWS
A disgraced former Catholic priest has been given a three-year community order after admitting sexually abusing an altar boy in the late 1980s.
Malcolm McLennan, 69, then an assistant priest in Walderslade, Kent abused the boy when he was 12 and 13.
McLennan, who has a string of previous convictions, lives in a closed church community in Quedgeley, Gloucester.
A judge at Maidstone Crown Court ordered him to attend a treatment programme.
McLennan was also put on the sex offenders’ register for five years.
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