UNITED KINGDOM
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By Nick Hitchens, Assistant Editor
A former priest who raped and sexually abused boys as young as seven has been jailed for 13 years.
Phillip Challis of Meadow Close Raynes Park was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court earlier today after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing in August.
In total the 52-year-old confessed to 17 charges of historical sexual assault, including two rapes on a child under 13, attempted rapes and sexual assaults.
The court heard police were first tipped off about Challis when the Child Abuse Investigation Team at Barnes received an allegation from a 17-year-old boy of abuse dating back to when the victim was eight.
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