LONDON (ENGLAND)
Yahoo News
January 16, 2021
By Rebecca Speare-Cole
A former priest who ran a church youth club has been jailed for grooming and sexually abusing three boys – one as young as 10-years-old.
Stephen Hardwicke, 63, from Uxbridge in London, was sentenced to five years in prison for five counts of indecent assault at Harrow Crown Court on Friday.
The ex-parish reverend targeted the three boys aged between 10 and 18 over five years during the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
Hardwicke was a leader and helper at the Way In church youth group connected to Stanmore Baptist Church in Harrow, northwest London at the time.
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