Peter Newell was a leading children's rights campaigner who worked for UNICEF
The 77-year-old, from London, led the UK's anti smacking campaign in a long and distinguished career
Newell also helped prepare UNICEF's Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
But now he is facing six years and eight months in jail for the abuse of a young boy
The 'horrific' sexual assaults took place over a three-year period in the 1960s
A UNICEF spokesman said today: 'We are deeply shocked to hear of the arrest of Peter Newell.'
He was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court and has been put on the sex offenders register
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