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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Belgravia, London, United Kingdom · 2016

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

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

trainee vicar and church youth and children's worker

Organization

St Michael's Chester Square, Diocese of London

Spiritual nexus

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

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 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

Primary 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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