UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
An Anglican vicar was caught with more than 8,000 images of child sexual abuse, including 800 of the “worst kind”, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Ian Hughes, 46, was a successful priest by day but by night was downloading thousands of indecent internet images of children, the court was told.
Hughes admitted 17 offences and was jailed for a year.
The Bishop of Chester said he was “deeply shocked” at Hughes’ “unacceptable” actions.
‘Like an addiction’
Hughes has resigned from the priesthood.
Expressing his “profound regret”, the Rt Rev Dr Peter Forster apologised to Hughes’ former parishioners in Poulton and Seacombe in Wallasey.
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