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BBC News
02-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Former Jersey priest jailed for five years for child sex abuse
A former Catholic priest in Jersey has been jailed for five years for sexually abusing a Antoni Glas committed the 11 sexual abuse offences between 2004 and 2007 while he was a priest in the Royal Court also gave Glas, 61, a lifelong restraining order, preventing contact with the victim, and ordered him to pay more than £12,000 towards the cost of the victim's ongoing April, Glas was found guilty of three counts of gross indecency with a child. The court heard how Glas progressively groomed his victim before abusing his position of trust to satisfy his sexual delivering the sentence, the Deputy Bailiff Robert MacRae said it was "difficult to think of a more serious breach of trust than your offending in this case". 'Planned and deliberate' On Monday, Crown Advocate Carla Carvalho, prosecuting, described Glas's "planned and deliberate" said Glas started by showering the victim with gifts, building up to the point where he would invite the victim to his house before using the victim's feet to satisfy his sexual "foot fetish".Ms Carvalho also described an isolated incident where Glas wrestled with the victim, putting their face to his groin and their feet on his read from a doctor's report that outlined the extreme psychological harm and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) the victim had suffered as a result of the also said Glas had groomed the victim's family by supporting them spiritually and financially so that they trusted him "implicitly".She said Glas' elevated spiritual and social status in the church meant the victim was dismissed when they tried to raise the meant the victim became a subject of blame which compounded their original trauma, she the hearing, Glas sat in the court's dock with his eyes closed, muttering under his breath. He stood with his eyes closed when his sentence was read was also put on the sex offenders list for 10 April, the Bishop of Portsmouth apologised for the abuse and pain Glas's victim had suffered.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Yahoo
Former island priest faces gross indecency charges
A former Jersey Catholic parish priest has gone on trial at the Royal Court charged with a series of sexual offences involving a child. Sixty-one-year-old Piotr Glas denies 10 charges. Eight refer to acts of alleged gross indecency over a two-year period while two are allegations of indecent assault. All the offences are alleged to have taken place when the child was between 13 and 15- years-old. The jury heard prosecution claims that Glas groomed the child in question, and had abused the trust placed in him, both as a priest and by the child's family. The trial is expected to last into next week. Follow BBC Jersey on X and Facebook. Send your story ideas to
