Spencers Wood reverend jailed for child sex offences

UNITED KINGDOM
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A reverend from Spencers Wood has been jailed for 15 years after pleading guilty to child sex offences and possessing indecent images of children.

Reverend Peter Jarvis of Clares Green Road was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Tuesday, April 6, two months after entering his guilty pleas.

The 51-year-old admitted to two counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity by a person in a position of trust and one count of possession of indecent images of children during a re-trial.

He was sentence to 15 years in prison in relation to the two charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. The judge also sentenced him to nine months for one count of possession of indecent images of children, but his sentences will run concurrently.

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