Monday, October 22, 2007
SEXUAL ABUSE COVER-UP IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
The Telegraph reports:
Child abuse has gone unchecked in the Church of England for decades amid a cover up by bishops, secret papers have revealed.
# Telegraph TV: Church child abuse 'unchecked'
Information that could have prevented abuse has been "lost or damaged", concerns about individuals have been ignored and allegations have not been recorded. It means that the Church has no idea how many paedophiles are in its midst.
Lawyers warned last night that the Church faces a crisis as catastrophic as the one that engulfed the Roman Catholic Church and cost it millions of pounds in damages.
Dr Williams: 'Every parish has got to have a child protection policy and it needs to work properly'
Richard Scorer, a solicitor who has specialised in child abuse cases, said that the Church of England's mistakes amounted to "an appalling, shocking level of negligence" that is likely to leave it open to claims from victims who have been too afraid to speak out in the past. The Church is to launch an urgent investigation on an unprecedented scale.
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