UNITED KINGDOM
Derbyshire Times
A former teacher turned Baptist minister has been found guilty of sexually abusing a boy he taught at a Derbyshire school in the 1970s.
John Thompson had denied sexually touching the boy over a four-year period at Crich C of E Junior School 40 years ago. He faced charges of six counts of indecent assault and two of gross indecency with the pupil.
A jury of six men and six women at Derby Crown Court took just over three hours to reach a unanimous verdict against Thompson, of Tutbury Road, Burton.
Thompson, a father of four boys, lived in Crich and was a third year teacher at the school between 1968 and 1981. He then left teaching to study theology, becoming employed as a Baptist minister, working at Babington Hospital in Belper, Crich Baptist Church, and a church in Sutton-in-Ashfield before becoming a minister in Burton in 1988.
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