UNITED KINGDOM
Christian Today
Ruth Gledhill CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 19 February 2016
A former youth leader and trainee vicar who preached a gospel of abstinence is facing many years in jail after being convicted of the rape of two teenage girls. Police are appealing for anyone with more information about the one-time Wycliffe student to come forward.
Timothy Storey, 35, was described in court as “every parent’s worst nightmare”.
He preached the virtues of chastity and abstinence while grooming girls in the congregation at the prominent evangelical church of St Michael’s Chester Square in the heart of London’s exclusive Belgravia disrtrict.
Court News reported that the Oxford theology student began his “incremental, insidious” grooming by sending the girls flattering messages through social media.
One of his victims, who was raped twice, was so under his control she described him as “more influential than God”. Both victims complained to the Church of England about Storey, but the allegations were “brushed aside,” Woolwich Crown Court heard.
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