The affair has caused great excitement within the Catholic Church across the Channel. On Wednesday June 24, the police in the county of Staffordshire, in central England, announced that they had indicted Mgr David Oakley, Bishop of Northampton since 2020, for “two counts of rape of a minor under 16 years of age”. The events took place in 2000, when the religious leader was a priest in the diocese of Birmingham, according to information confirmed by the Catholic authorities to the American media The Pillar.
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