Priest charged with non-recent child sex offences in Horsham
The 62-year-old has appeared in court
A Roman Catholic priest has been charged with sexual offences against a teenage boy in Horsham in the early 1990's.
Father Anthony White, 62, now of Cross-In-Hand in Heathfield, was given a summons to appear at Crawley Magistrates Court on Wednesday (April 28th), to answer charges that during 1992 and 1993 he committed two offences of indecent assault and an offence of buggery against a boy then aged 15 at the address where White was then living in Horsham where he was an Assistant Priest at St Johns Church.
The defendant did not enter a plea and the case was committed for trial with an initial hearing at Lewes Crown Court on May 26th.
The prosecution, authorised by the CPS, follows an investigation by detectives from the West Sussex Safeguarding Investigations Unit after a report was received by police for the first time in 2020.