ENGLAND
Christian Today
March 12, 2018
A Church of England priest has been banned from ministry after being found guilty of ‘spiritual abuse’ against a teenager.
Rev Timothy Davis, of Christ Church, Abingdon in Oxfordshire, was ‘prohibited from the exercise of holy orders’ for two years by a disciplinary panel on Saturday.
It comes after he was found ‘guilty of conduct unbecoming or inappropriate to the office and work of a clerk in Holy Orders through the abuse of spiritual power and authority over a person then aged 15-16’ in January.
The landmark case was the first of its kind in which a priest was found guilty of ‘spiritual abuse’.
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