UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Echo
A FORMER vicar described by police as a “sexual predator” has been jailed after abusing a 13-year-old boy.
Maxwell Hallahan was sentenced to 21 months in prison for a string of offences against the youngster in the 1970s.
They took place while he was vicar at St Faith’s Church in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, and followed a previous conviction for a similar offence in 2011.
The retired priest will also be subject to a ten-year notification on the Sex Offender Register and a Safeguarding Order.
Senior Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in Wessex Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Unit (RASSO), Richard Powell, said: “Maxwell Hallahan abused his position of authority as vicar in his parish.
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