A SOUTH Yorkshire vicar has been charged with 17 child porn offences, including making and possessing indecent images of children.
Rev Adrian Fereday, aged 50, serves the Rotherham parishes of Firbeck and Woodsetts, as well as Letwell near Worksop, and is believed to live in the Letwell area.
He has been charged with 16 counts of making indecent images of children and one count of possessing indecent images of children.
He has been bailed to appear before Rotherham Magistrates' Court next week.
Rev Fereday has been suspended by the Diocese of Sheffield pending the outcome of the criminal investigation. Before his suspension, the father-of-two is thought to have been on long-term sick leave.
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