UNITED KINGDOM
Premier
Thu 18 May 2017
By Eno Adeogun
A paedophile has been jailed for two years and eight months after confessing his crime to a priest with the false belief that the chaplain was bound to keep the secret.
Stanley Wood, 66, admitted that he had sexually assaulted a six year old girl to the clergyman while he was in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for hip surgery.
Prosecutor Robert Price told Wolverhampton Crown Court: “He asked for God’s forgiveness and said he had had sex with a six year old girl.
Wood expected the admission to be kept secret but the cleric told the safeguarding nurse on the ward who according to the Express and Star, notified the defendant that the police would be informed.
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