Jehovah's Witness guilty of sex charges

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  • izobcenec
    izobcenec

    Jehovah's Witness guilty of sex charges

    BY JANE HUNT

    October 14, 2002 12:31

    A SENIOR member of the Jehovahs Witness Congregation in Ipswich has been warned he could face a jail sentence after being convicted of two offences of indecent assault.

    John Pickrell was today found guilty by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court of indecently touching a schoolgirl while giving her a piggyback on a beach and kissing another girl's foot.

    Pickrell, 48, of Cedarcroft Road, Ipswich, has denied seven charges of indecent assault on the two girls.

    Last week he was cleared of two of the offences on the direction of Judge Nicholas Beddard and today he was cleared of three others by the jury.

    Sentence was adjourned for a pre-sentence report until the week beginning November 11.

    Pickrell, who has no previous convictions, was released on bail but was warned by Judge Beddard that he could be facing a jail sentence.

    SOURCE: http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/news/NewsStory.asp?Brand=ESTOnline&Category=News&ItemId=IPED14+Oct+2002+12%3A31%3A32%3A663

  • AjaxMan
    AjaxMan

    GOOD!

    I hope he gets a taste of his own medicine in Prison.

  • blindfool
    blindfool

    I could have sworn the thread said gulity of sex changes. Geez, I wonder where my minds at?

  • more2C
    more2C

    Does anyone know if that took place in Ipswich, Massachusetts? (It's near where I live, and

    I was curious.) Nothing has been mentioned on the local news.

    more2C

  • PopeOfEruke
    PopeOfEruke

    More2c, its a UK website, so I think its Ipswich in the UK somewhere...

    Pope

  • Earnest
    Earnest

    No, more2c, this was in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. Probably the town in MA is named after it. Wouldn't be surprised if some of the early settlers left from there (it's a sea port).

    Edited to add that the Colony Records (http://john-slaughter.rootsweb.com/IpswichHistory) confirm my surmise:

    1634, Aug. 4th. Agawam is called Ipswich, being a town in England, by the Court of Assistants, "in acknowledgment of the great honor and kindness done to our people, who took shipping there." Thus altered from an appellation, long familiar to the ears, and long dear to the hearts of the Agawames, it received another more familiar and dearer to Englishmen.

    Edited by - Earnest on 14 October 2002 19:54:46

  • more2C
    more2C

    O.K. Thanks Pope!

    more2C

  • more2C
    more2C

    Thanks Earnest! Ipswich, Massachusetts is a small community. There are beaches nearby.

    more2C

  • abbagail
    abbagail

    Thanks for posting the article, izob. I saw the other two about this same matter, but I would have missed this one! Found GUILTY! That's what we like to see!

    GRITS

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Like Erica said in front of the Dateline-NBC cameras when she finally got justice, "GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!"

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