Vicar jailed for sexual abuse

13 April 2012

An elderly vicar who carried out a four-year campaign of sexual abuse against two young girls in his parish was jailed for five years today.

Robin Everett, 69, was told that he had committed a "gross abuse of trust" by taking advantage of the two youngsters.

On one occasion he abused one of the children in his own church vestry.

He had used the girls, who were aged between eight and 15, for his own gratification, and had ruined their lives, Judge Simon Hammond said at Leicester Crown Court.

The abuse happened 20 years ago, when Everett was vicar of St Edward King and Martyr Church, in Castle Donington, Leicestershire.

Jailing Everett, the judge told him: "It was a gross abuse of trust as a parish priest to abuse those two young members of your flock for your own gratification.

"How despicable to abuse a child in a church on consecrated ground. The lives of those two girls were ruined. They felt their childhood was stolen from them."

A jury at the court convicted Everett, of Boulton Moor, Boulton, Derbyshire, who is now retired, of seven counts of indecent assault - five involving one girl and two involving the other - last month.

Everett was also banned from working with children for life and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register.

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