Posted on 05/24/2010 11:16:26 AM PDT by markomalley
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A victim of sexual abuse has told a jury that his ordeal started when he was between 5 and 6-years-old.
The man, now 37, has been giving evidence in the trial of former postman and church missionary John Patrick Conway. He denies six charges of indecent assault on a boy under 14 between April 1979 and May 1986. His twin brother Martyn has admitted six charges of sexual assault on the same boy. The brothers, aged 50, befriended the boy at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cherry Hinton where many of the assaults took place, Cambridge Crown Court heard yesterday.
The jury has been told that Martyn Conway began the sex with the boy – and John Conway would ask the boy what his brother had done and then repeat it. The victim told the court that he had at first been “rewarded” with sweets for taking part in sex acts.
Later Martin Conway had drawn up a list of sexual activities with a “price list” starting at £5 for kissing. John Conway later drew up a similar list. The man told the court that he only began to realise that the activities were wrong when he was in his early teens. He said he asked John Conway if he was a paedophile.
But he replied: “This is what friends do. Paedophiles are different.” The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said John Conway became “more insistent” when he tried to stop the abuse. He said: “I would try to push him away, but he grabbed hold of me.” On one occasion John Conway “squashed” him against a wall in a corridor of the church. He said the abuse by the brothers stopped between 1980 and 1982 when they went away to be missionaries but it started again within six months of their return. Sex acts took place in public toilets at Cherry Hinton Hall and in the brothers’ cars in lay-bys on Lime Kiln Hill and at the Gog Magog roundabout. The man said he had not spoken about the abuse until he told a girlfriend. He said: “It’s been something I’ve been trying to forget. Once I realised how bad it was I found it difficult to think about.” The case continues. |
Back-to-back horrible threads. Why?!
Sorry: I was looking at my really disgusting news aggregation site and these two articles screamed: “Post me”
Did the church make any statement about this horror?
What were the brothers doing tag team abuse?
What creeps.
I am for torture for these perps, revive them and torture again.
I care not a whit what church or non church group they belong to..make them pay.
If postmen and Mormon missionaries were allowed to marry, this would never have happened.
...at the Gog Magog roundabout.?
Where’s that? In Har Meggido?.........
Did the church make any statement about this horror?
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I am more interested in knowing when/if these two were excommunicated from Mormonism and if they will be allowed to be re-baptized.
I care not a whit what church or non church group they belong to..make them pay.
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AMEN.
Nope. Cambridgeshire
“Sex acts took place in public toilets ...... and at the Gog Magog roundabout.”
“Gog Magog” roundabout ? ? ?
Can anyone imagine a writer of a crime story placing the act at Gog Magog anything? Truth is stranger than fiction.
Not stranger than perversion, though.
That’s okay ... I shouldn’t have mentioned it, but when I was talking with Fr. John Smyth of Maryville Academy (home for seriously abused children), he said (and it’s a paraphrase), “People ask me all the time how someone could hurt these children in the ways that they do, and I think to myself, if they only knew what happens on their very own streets each day and night, they’d faint away from sorrow.”
The Gog Magog roundabout is located near the Gog Magog golf club: http://www.gogmagog.co.uk/
No kidding
Castration
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