UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph & Argus
A disgraced Church of England priest who intimately touched and imitated sex with a 15-year-old girl has been jailed for three years.
Stephen Crabtree, of Ollerdale Avenue, Bradford, carried out the offences when he was working at a parish in the East Lindsey area of Lincolnshire in the early 1990s, after forming “an inappropriate relationship” with the victim following the breakdown of his marriage.
The 59-year-old admitted six charges of indecent assault on dates between April 1992 and April 1993. He was today jailed for three years and placed on the sex offenders’ register for life at Lincoln Crown Court.
Judge Michael Heath, passing sentence, told him: “She was extremely vulnerable at that age and you took advantage. You knew she was 15 years old. You engaged in that relationship behind her parents back breaching their trust and the trust of the Church.
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