A North Somerset Parish Priest Has Appeared in Court Charged with 15 Sex Offences against Seven Boys
BBC News [United Kingdom]
October 18, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/6062338.stm
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| Rev Smith is due to appear before Bristol Crown Court on 10 November |
The Rev David Smith, 51, vicar of St John the Evangelist in Clevedon, is alleged to have committed the offences between September 1976 and May 2005.
He faces nine charges of indecent assault, two of gross indecency, one of incitement to gross indecency, one of grooming and two sexual assaults.
Mr Smith, of St John's Road, Clevedon, was bailed until 10 November.
The diocese of Bath and Wells has suspended him from duty pending the outcome of the case.
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