{"id":69016,"date":"2018-03-12T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69016"},"modified":"2018-03-12T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:19:28","slug":"bbc-abingdon-vicar-who-spiritually-abused-boy-gets-two-year-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69016","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Abingdon vicar who &#8216;spiritually abused&#8217; boy gets two-year ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Church of England vicar who &#8220;spiritually abused&#8221; a boy has been banned from ministry for two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Timothy Davis is understood to be the first priest to have been convicted of such abuse by the Bishop&#8217;s Disciplinary Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davis, of Christ Church, Abingdon, held two-hour private prayer sessions in the teenager&#8217;s bedroom after moving in with his family in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He also told his victim his girlfriend was &#8220;evil&#8221; and a &#8220;bad seed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davis lived with the family, who were members of his congregation, for six months after meeting the boy during a mentoring programme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-oxfordshire-43367265\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Church of England vicar who &#8220;spiritually abused&#8221; a boy has been banned from ministry for two years. The Reverend Timothy Davis is understood to be the first priest to have been convicted of such abuse by the Bishop&#8217;s Disciplinary<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69016\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,101,168,435,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69017,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69016\/revisions\/69017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}