Dr John Sentamu Gives Blessing to Trawl of Church Archives in Search for Paedophile Priests

By Sean O’Neill
The Times
August 17, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3845482.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_08_16


A trawl of Church of England archives has begun in an effort to find paedophile priests, dead or alive, who may have escaped justice. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has ordered all files on clergy in his diocese to be retrieved and examined by an independent child protection expert.

The great majority of the records date from 1950 to the present day, but the reviewer will have access to any file that can be recovered. Church officials said that “no files are being left out or overlooked”.