UNITED KINGDOM
Luton on Sunday
‘Appropriate penalty’ may be imposed by St Albans Bishop on Luton vicar James Ogley jailed for encouraging girl, 13, to commit sex offences
THE Diocese of St Albans has said it may impose an ‘appropriate penalty’ on a Luton vicar was jailed for two years after encouraging a teenage girl to commit child sex offences.
Revd James Ogley, Vicar of St Francis, Luton, was jailed yesterday (September 30) at Luton Crown Court. He had pleaded guilty to seven charges of publishing obscene material in the form of chat logs.
In one of them he had told a 13-year-old girl to sexually abuse her nine-year-old sister.
The Diocese of St Albans said Revd Ogley had been suspended from all his duties as a clergyman and as vicar in January 2013 following his arrest by the police. He is still suspended.
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