UNITED KINGDOM
The Bolton News
Andrew Bardsley, reporter / Wednesday 19 August 2015
A FORMER priest has been found guilty of sexually abusing a boy in vicarages in Bolton and Atherton.
Frank Baldwick was convicted by a jury of nine men and three women at Bolton Crown Court.
They took just 90 minutes to return guilty verdicts on the two counts of indecent assault.
The offences — which date from the late 1970s when Baldwick was the Church of England vicar of St Michael’s Great Lever, and then of St Anne’s Hindsford, Atherton — were committed against a boy aged between 11 and 13 at the time.
Baldwick, now aged 91, appeared in court wearing a navy blue suit and carrying a walking stick.
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