UNITED KINGDOM
The Post
A FORMER Bristol magistrate has been spared prison, despite sexually abusing a teenage boy.
James Hennah, who was also a lay pastor at the Bristol Community Church in Kingswood and a Bristol Grammar School counsellor, was given a suspended sentence at Exeter Crown Court yesterday.
The 39-year-old admitted two charges of sexually touching a boy and one of gaining sexual gratification by watching him do a “private act”, having asked him to try on some new underwear.
Prosecuting, Emily Pitts told the court the offences had devastated the boy. His self-confidence had been shattered and he had lost trust in adults.
In a statement to the court, the youngster said: “I never want to speak to him or see him again.”
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