United Kingdom: priest jailed for historic sex attacks on a boy in a church vestry and convent
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
Catholic priest, ordained 1977
Organization
Unnamed parish, Alnwick, Northumberland
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Father David Taylor abused a boy in the church vestry, in an old convent, and on a football trip, using the unsupervised access his priesthood gave him inside religious buildings and church-organised activities dating back roughly 40 years before conviction.
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Proceedings
2022-12-13 · conviction and sentence
Newcastle Crown Court, England. Sentenced for ten offences: five counts of indecency with a child, two counts of indecent assault, and three counts of indecent assault on a male person, committed against a boy from the priest's own parish beginning in the early stages of his priesthood.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- abuse committed inside a church vestry and an old convent, sites of unquestioned clerical access
- abuse extended to a trip to a football tournament, showing access beyond church grounds via his priestly role
Cited record
Sources
- regional broadcast court reporting criminal disposition and nexus ITV News Tyne Tees, 'Former priest jailed for sex attacks on boy in church vestry' (Dec. 13, 2022).
Regional broadcaster report confirming Newcastle Crown Court sentencing, the ten counts, and the vestry/convent/football-trip locations of abuse.
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- https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2022-12-13/former-priest-jailed-for-sex-attacks-on-boy-in-church-vestry Corpus classification: regional-broadcast-court-reporting; evidentiary role: criminal-disposition-and-nexus.
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