NORTHHAMPTON (ENGLAND)
Northhampton Chronicle
Dec. 12, 2019
A disgraced Northamptonshire rector who downloaded pictures and movie clips of children and babies being raped and fantasised about having sex with a young girl has been jailed.
Christopher Goble had already pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to three charges of making indecent images of children.
Between 2002 and 2008, he served as a priest in an area of the Diocese of Peterborough, as rector of Brington with Whilton, Norton, Church Brampton with Chapel Brampton, Harlestone and East Haddon and Holdenby.
When he returned to the court to be sentenced for those pictures on his phone, the court heard that more images had been discovered on other devices.
The disgraced cleric then pleaded guilty to three amended charges detailing larger numbers of images and to two further charges of possessing extreme pornography and prohibited images.
Goble, 44, of The Rectory, Valenders Lane, Ilmington, at the time, but recently living at The Brambles, Oswestry, was jailed for 20 months and ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years.
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