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  • Married vicar is suspended over 'naked photograph'

    02/18/2004 5:05:40 AM PST · by Cincinatus · 11 replies · 237+ views
    Daily Telegraph ^ | Feb. 18, 2004 | David Sapsted
    A country vicar has been suspended after shocked parishioners reported that a naked picture of him had been posted on an internet dating website. The picture allegedly shows Fr Bob Locke, 41, the Anglican vicar of Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, and invites contact from women for sex. The Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Rev John Gladwin, suspended the married clergyman while the "unsettling allegations" are investigated. Church authorities decided they had to act after a woman who lives in the Burnham area, where Mr Locke became vicar at the 14th-century St Mary the Virgin church four years ago, reportedly saw the picture...