Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Anglican and Episcopal Belgravia, London, United Kingdom · 2016

United Kingdom: Church of England youth worker convicted of raping congregants he groomed

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

trainee vicar and church youth and children's worker

Organization

St Michael's Chester Square, Diocese of London

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His ministry was the hunting ground and his doctrine the disguise — young congregants under a youth pastor's spiritual mentorship.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Sacred sex, purity, or sexual-energy claim

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Proceedings

2016-02-01 · convictions in 2014 and 2016; 15-year sentence

English Crown Court. Timothy Storey, a trainee vicar and youth worker, groomed and raped congregation members aged 10 to 16 met through his ministry, while publicly preaching chastity. Convicted of grooming in 2014 and of three rapes and one assault by penetration in February 2016, he was sentenced to fifteen years; the judge criticised the Diocese of London's safeguarding failures.

Documented coercion mechanisms

youth-ministry mentorship of congregants aged 10–16
public chastity preaching alongside private grooming

Cited record

Sources

institutional reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Church youth worker Timothy Storey jailed for 15 years', Christian Today (2016).: Reports the convictions, sentence and judicial criticism of the diocese.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.christiantoday.com/article/church.youth.worker.timothy.storey.jailed.for.15.years/79489.htm Corpus classification: institutional-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report.
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