UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By ABE HAWKEN FOR MAILONLINE
A youth pastor described as being ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’ was today jailed for 15 years after he raped two teenagers he had groomed on Facebook.
Timothy Storey, 35, lived a ‘double life’ preaching the virtues of abstinence at St Michael’s Church in Victoria, central London, while he began his ‘incremental’ and ‘insidious’ manipulation of girls from the congregation.
One of his victims was so brainwashed by what he told her she described him as being ‘more influential than God’.
The court heard the girls had complained about the trainee vicar to the church but their allegations were ‘brushed aside’.
Following his sentence today, Judge Philip Katz QC blasted the Diocese of London for their ‘utterly incompetent’ reaction to the issue.
He said: ‘There was a wholesale failure for those responsible at the time for safeguarding.
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