Nadine Dorries: I was abused in childhood by vicar

UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian

Press Association
Sunday 7 June 2015

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has revealed that the stories of child sexual abuse described in her novels are based on her own experience.

The former I’m a Celebrity contestant, who grew up in Liverpool, says she was abused by Anglican vicar and family friend Rev William Cameron when she was nine.

Better known to parishioners by his middle name James, he was made priest-in-charge at St Mary’s Anglican church in Halewood in 1966, Dorries told the Mail on Sunday (MoS).

Dorries, who never went to the police, claims the abuse began when she was summoned to the vicarage on the pretence of looking at his stamp collection.

The man, who is now dead, showed her a Playboy magazine as well as photos of him and his wife having sex, the Mid Bedfordshire MP told the newspaper.

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