UNITED KINGDOM
Isle of Wight County Press
Maxwell Crosby Halahan, 84, committed a series of sex offences against the boy between 1974 and 1977, while he was the parish priest at St Faith’s Church, Cowes.
He was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court on Thursday to 21 months in prison.
Richard Powell, senior prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Wessex Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Unit, said after the sentencing: “Maxwell Halahan abused his position of authority as vicar in his parish. He abused the boy, who is now an adult but was only 13 years of age when the abuse started.
“Halahan had already been convicted of similar offences in 2011. There is no doubt he is a sexual predator who did not hesitate to take advantage of his position as a ‘pillar of the society’ at the time to abuse young boys.
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