UNITED KINGDOM
Get Surrey
By Russell Butt
July 04, 2012
A CHURCH created a contract of behaviour allowing one of its stalwarts who confessed interfering with a young girl to remain in the congregation, a court has heard.
Kenneth Guichard, a regular of the Jubilee Church, Chertsey, was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for a sustained campaign of sexual abuse against a young girl during the 1980s.
On Tuesday, Guildford Crown Court heard that in 2009 he confessed to his sons and his church that he had ‘interfered’ with the girl, but not actually saying what he had done.
The church subsequently created a ‘contract’ of behaviour with Guichard by which he had to adhere to remain a member of the congregation. Guichard, 68, of Rowan Avenue, Egham, admitted the string of offences.
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