UNITED KINGDOM
The Argus
A former Church of England priest has been charged with 11 sexual and child cruelty offences.
Jonathan Graves, 57, of Jervis Avenue, Eastbourne, has been charged with:
* three offences of indecent assault on a boy aged 11 to 13 between 1987 and 1990;
* three offences of indecency with the same boy during the same period;
* three offences of cruelty against the same boy over the same period;
* one offence of indecent assault on an adult woman between 1994 and 1995;
* one offence of indecent assault on another adult woman in 2002.
Graves, who worked at St Lukes Church in Stone Cross, was charged on the authority of the Crown Prosecution Service when he answered police bail on today, having first been arrested in November 2013.
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