UNITED KINGDOM
Wirral Globe
Lynda Roughley
A former church organist who sexually abused a vulnerable young girl was put behind bars – 40 years after the offences.
Martyn Poole, who assisted at a church in Wallasey, denied molesting the girl, who was aged about 12, but was convicted after a trial.
A judge told 74-year-old Poole, “You befriended her, earning her trust and she came to look up to you as a father figure.
“You betrayed that trust on two occasions, sexually abusing her having invited her to your home when your wife and family were elsewhere.”
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