UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
A vicar who was the official chaplain for the British Olympic team sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl before the case was covered up by the Church for 20 years, a court heard.
Kevin McGarahan, who has also attended Remembrance Day services alongside the Prime Minister, was convicted of abusing the teenager at his home between 1992 and 1996.
A court heard the 64-year-old invited the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, into his home and quizzed her about her experience with boys before offering to teach her how to slow dance.
McGarahan, who was known as ‘Rev Kev’, then held her hips and forced his tongue into her mouth at the property in Telford, Shropshire.
She claimed the clergyman also told her he could rape her if he wanted to before saying that “nobody would ever know”.
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