{"id":314656,"date":"2017-06-27T03:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T02:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/former-archbishop-resigns-over-church-collusion-in-sex-abuse\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T03:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T02:42:50","slug":"former-archbishop-resigns-over-church-collusion-in-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/former-archbishop-resigns-over-church-collusion-in-sex-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Archbishop resigns over church \u2018collusion\u2019 in sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has resigned from his last remaining formal role in the church after a report found he \u201ccolluded\u201d with a disgraced pedophile bishop to prevent him from facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n

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Justin Welby, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, last week asked Lord Carey to \u201ccarefully consider his position.\u201d<\/em> On Monday, Lord Carey resigned from his current role as an honorary Assistant Bishop in the diocese of Oxford.<\/p>\n

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A damning report by formal social worker Dame Moira Gibb, the result of an 18-month inquiry, found the Church of England failed to protect the victims of Peter Ball, who was jailed in 2015 for abusing 18 vulnerable men and boys over a 20-year period.<\/p>\n

The Bishop of Oxford released a statement on Monday saying: \u201cLord Carey has accepted the criticisms made of him in the Gibb review and has apologized to the victims of Peter Ball.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAlong with many others, I have been deeply distressed to read Dame Moira Gibb\u2019s report with its narrative of the abuse perpetrated by Peter Ball which remained hidden for so long.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that the focus of attention will continue to be on the survivors of abuse and offering to them the care and support they need.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ball, the former Bishop of Lewes, was jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after admitting to sexually abusing 18 people aged 17-25 while in service.<\/p>\n

Ball, described as a \u201csadistic sexual predator\u201d<\/em> by his victims, admitted to abusing a 12-year-old. He was released in February after his sentence was shortened to 16 months.<\/p>\n

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\u2018An Abuse of Faith,\u2019 a report examining the CoE\u2019s response when the first allegations were made in 1992, found that senior clergy had \u201ctrivialized\u201d<\/em> Ball\u2019s actions in a bid to save the Church\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

The report accused then-Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of failing to inform police of several letters by members of the public who had witnessed or experienced Ball\u2019s abuse.<\/p>\n

These included letters from parents who said their children had been sexually propositioned by Ball, and a man who said he had been asked to masturbate in front of him at the age of 15.<\/p>\n

The report accuses Carey of \u201csetting the tone for the Church\u2019s response to Ball\u2019s crimes and gave the steer which allowed Ball\u2019s assertions that he was innocent to gain credence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ball had initially been investigated by police in 1993 after Neil Todd, a young man who had stayed with him, told Church figures there had been \u201csexual activity\u201d<\/em> between the two. Todd killed himself in 2012.
That investigation ended when Ball accepted a caution for gross indecency and resigned as Bishop of Gloucester.<\/p>\n

Lord Carey said in a statement last Thursday: \u201cI accept the criticisms made of me. I apologise to the victims of Peter Ball.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI believed Peter Ball\u2019s protestations and gave too little credence to the vulnerable young men and boys behind those allegations. I regret that after Peter Ball was cautioned I did not place his name on the Lambeth list.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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