UNITED KINGDOM
The Argus
Joel Adams, Reporter
THE Church of England has been hit by a fresh blow after another clergyman was jailed for sex crimes involving teenage boys.
Peter Keeley-Pannett has been sentenced to 32 months in prison after he used the webcam application Skype to view underage boys whom he contacted through internet chat rooms, while working as an unpaid deacon at the St Nicolas Church, Portslade.
He pleaded guilty to making over 150 indecent images of underage boys, and to several counts relating to causing teenage boys between 13 and 15 to engage in sexual activity.
The Diocese of Chichester has been rocked by repeated sex abuse cases in the last two years but this is the first which relates to recent offences rather than historic cases dating from the 1970s and 80s.
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