UNITED KINGDOM
Independent
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
The Rev Simon Sayers has been banned from being a minister for five years by the Bishop of London after admitting to initiating and engaging in two sexual acts with the teenager 20 years ago.
He has resigned his position of Rector of Warblington with Emsworth, Hampshire.
A Metropolitan police investigation into the incidents was carried out in 2015, after allegations of indecent assault had been reported to them. The sexual acts took place in the Islington area where Mr Sayers had been in a parish ministry in 1995.
A police investigation was carried out but no action was taken against Mr Sayers.
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