Former priest pleads guilty to child sexual abuse spanning decades in North Carolina

WASHINGTON (DC)
Episcopal News Service

Oct. 24, 2019

By Egan Millard

Howard White Jr., a former Episcopal priest who was previously convicted of molesting a student during his time as a chaplain at a Rhode Island boarding school, pleaded guilty on Oct. 21 to 15 charges of child sexual abuse in North Carolina.

White, 78, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the assaults that took place from 1984 to 2004, while he was rector of Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times.

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