UNITED KINGDOM
Lutterworth Mail
by Court reporter
newsdesk@harboroughmail.co.uk
Published on the 08 March 2014
A former priest and religious education teacher who used to live in the Harborough district has gone on trial charged with sexually abusing young girls.
David Goodstadt, who used in live in Gartree and now lives in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, denied all allegations against him, including that he raped one of the girls, who was under the age of ten.
Goodstadt, who has worked at John Mansfield School in Peterborough and the Thomas Deacon Academy, also in Peterborough, faces a total of 14 charges, dating back several years.
The alleged victims cannot be named for legal reasons.
The trial started at Peterborough Crown Court on Monday where a jury of four men and eight women were sworn in.
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