A pastor has made a shocking confession about how he subjected many of his victims through an excruciating torture as he inserted hypodermic needles into their private parts.
John Beaumont, a clergyman carried out a series of horrific assaults on victims in which he injected their genitals with hypodermic needles.
According to Metro UK, John Beaumont admitted committing nine indecent assaults and one count of actual bodily harm against two females and one male as his trial was due to start on Tuesday.
The offences took place over a period of more than a decade, between June 1986 and October 1996.
Beaumont, now aged 58, convinced the three victims to remove part or all of their clothing by claiming they may have been affected by radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.
He then inserted the needles, and on one occasion a tube, into their genitals. He also caused actual bodily harm by inserting a needle into the male victim’s arm.
One of the female victims was disabled, and Manchester Crown Court heard that the assaults would have been ‘particularly painful’ for her.
Prosecutor Michael Brady said of Beaumont: ‘He is a highly intelligent, highly articulate but, ultimately, highly manipulative individual who was able to gain a huge amount of trust – to the point he was able to commit these highly unusual offences with the ostensible, and I stress ostensible, consent of the three victims.’
On one occasion Beaumont even used a box with wires that made a clicking sound, claiming to his victims that it was a Geiger counter that was picking up radiation.
The cleric also convinced them he had some medical training from his time as a minister, or trainee minister, with the Church of Scotland.
‘As a consequence of this manipulative behaviour all three allowed him to carry out these “examinations”, which took the form of having all three completely or partially undressed,’ Mr Brady continued.
‘These were, no doubt, highly uncomfortable and traumatic for them.’
Beaumont’s victims reported the historic offences to social workers out of concern that he would abuse others.
A jury formally found Beaumont guilty of the charges on the direction of Judge Paul Lawton.
He was told that Beaumont already has previous convictions for more than 40 similar offences he carried out in Scotland during the 1970s and 80s.
He used a similar pretext – claiming to be investigating the effects of nuclear radiation – and gained his victims’ trust by posing as a doctor, university researcher or member of the health board.
The clergyman has been granted bail until his sentencing hearing on June 16 but was warned by Judge Lawton that he faces a lengthy custodial sentence.
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