UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post
A DISGRACED vicar has had five years added to his jail sentence after he admitted having sex with two more vulnerable young boys.
Peter Hedge, 51, was locked up for 14 years in 2009 after a jury found him guilty of raping and sexually abusing six youngsters. But Judge Peter Benson yesterday extended that sentence after the Oxford University graduate admitted offences against two other boys.
Sophie Drake, prosecuting, told Bradford Crown Court that one of two new complainants had been interviewed during the initial police inquiry, but denied anything had happened as he wanted to get on with his life. However, in 2011 he contacted police and revealed how Hedge had sexually abused him on three occasions.
At the time the abuse began in the 1990s, Hedge was the curate of St Margaret’s Church, Thornbury, Bradford, but he continued to target youngsters after becoming the vicar at Holy Trinity Church, Queensbury.
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