UNITED KINGDOM
Chroncle Live
A pervert vicar has been jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to four counts of indecent assault against a boy in the 1970s.
Trusted Leonard Skinner, 79, has brought shame on the church after he admitted the offences covering a four-year period.
Skinner, of Brighton Grove in Whitley Bay, was convicted of four counts of indecent assault against the same boy while he worked in the south of England.
The pensioner, who moved to North Tyneside following his retirement, was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court in London. He had pleaded guilty on February 11 at Highbury Magistrates’ Court to two counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 14 and two counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 16.
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