UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
The former Dean of Lancaster Cathedral has been jailed for historical sex offences against a man who was training as a priest.
Canon Stephen Shield was sentenced to 12 months in prison for three indecent assaults between 1985 and 1992.
Shield, 54, of Balmoral Road, Lancaster, abused the man from the age of 18, Preston Crown Court heard.
The Bishop of Lancaster, the Right Reverend Michael G Campbell, said it was a “tragic episode”.
Two of the assaults took place in a church presbytery in Preston in 1992 when the victim was in his 20s, while the other happened at a retreat in the Lake District, the court heard.
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