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Barry and District News
JEHOVAH’S Witness elder Mark Sewell has been jailed for 14 years for rape and seven counts of indecent assault, six of which were against children.
A three week trial at Merthyr Crown Court heard how Sewell, 53, of Porthkerry Road, Barry had used his position of power and influence within the church to sexually abuse women and girls over a 10 year period in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Sewell was found guilty of charges including committing what Judge Richard Twomlow described as a “brief but violent” rape of a female friend and fellow churchgoer at his home after which she became pregnant and miscarried.
Sewell, described in court as a “bully” and a “predator”, had also abused two girls, including his niece Karen Morgen, when she was under the age of 14.
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