UNITED KINGDOM
Croydon Advertiser
By Tom_Matthews | Posted: October 27, 2016
A former social worker and Catholic priest who abused 13 children over more than two decades, including at Shirley Oaks children’s home, today had his “too soft” jail term increased by a third.
Philip Temple molested 12 boys and one girl over 25 years, starting in the 1970s, while working in south London care homes and at a north London church.
He also lied on oath at a trial in the 1990s, when he was cleared of sex offences against a teenage boy – forcing his victim to go through the trauma of giving evidence against him twice.
The 66-year-old, of Court Downs Road, Beckenham, was given a 12-year sentence at Woolwich Crown Court in August, after he admitted 27 sex offences and two counts of perjury.
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