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May 16, 2014 By David Millward
Jury at Reading Crown Court heard the mother describe how her child, when she was 12, acted like a teenager going through puberty
The mother of a woman who claims to have been abused by a vicar when she was 11 years old told a court how her daughter’s behaviour changed suddenly after the incidents were alleged to have happened.
A jury at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday heard the mother describe how her child, when she was 12, acted like a teenager going through puberty and she could not understand why, until her daughter told her about the alleged assaults many years later.
Vicar denies child sex charges
Brian Spence, 74, who was priest-in-charge at St Mary’s Church, in Englefield, before retiring, denies nine counts of indecent assault involving four girls under-16 between 1995 and 1999.
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