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Windsor Observer
Former Windsor priest jailed for six years for historic child sex offences including indecent assaults at a Windsor church
A FORMER Catholic priest who took advantage of his position to abuse boys at a Windsor church has been jailed for historic sexual offences.
Michael Feben, pleaded guilty to six offences of indecent assault in the 1960s and 1970s on three boys who were aged between 10 and 15 with four of the offences happening in Windsor in the 1960s.
Feben, of Medina Avenue, Newport, the Isle of Wight, was sentenced to six years behind bars after pleading guilty at Reading Crown Court on Thursday.
The four offences in Windsor happened at St Edward’s Church, in Alma Road, between 1965 and 1967.
Investigating officer, Detective Constable Francesca Worley of the Thames Valley Police Child Abuse Investigation Unit based at Windsor Police Station, said: “Feben was a priest and aged in his twenties at the time of these offences and continued to offend for decades. This was a gross breach of his position of trust, as he took advantage of young boys who attended his parish.
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