Catholic priest who abused boy was ‘never a man of God’

A former Catholic priest who sexually abused an altar boy in the 1980s was told he was ‘never a man of God’ by a judge as he was jailed for nine years. Brian Rutledge, 82, was branded a ‘predator dressed as a priest’ who has been preying on children for decades. The perverted clergyman was convicted of indecent assault and a further serious sex assault on his latest victim, then 15, between 1988 and 1989 after a trial at Reading…