UNITED KINGDOM
East Grinstead Courier
A WOMAN claiming to be a victim of an ex-vicar convicted of child sex offences says she is shocked he is still able to attend church in East Grinstead and use the title “Reverend”.
Guy Bennett was jailed in 1999 for indecently assaulting three young girls in his care.
The offences involved 11-year-old victims between 1976 and 1988 while he was a teacher at St Mary’s School in Oxted.
But the Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted in a letter he is powerless to prevent him from referring to himself as “Reverend” or wearing a clerical collar.
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