Inquiry into Sussex Sex Abuse Bishop "Continues without Delay" after Shock Resignation

Sussex Express
August 5, 2016

http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/inquiry-into-sussex-sex-abuse-bishop-continues-without-delay-after-shock-resignation-1-7513376

Former bishop of Lewes Peter Ball was jailed last year for sex offences against 18 vulnerable young men between 1977 and 1992.

The head of an inquiry looking into sexual abuse by the former bishop of Lewes Peter Ball has made a shock resignation.

New Zealand judge Dame Lowell Goddard announced her immediate departure as chairwoman of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, in a brief letter to home secretary Amber Rudd yesterday evening (Thursday).

She later released a statement saying the inquiry is suffering from a “legacy of failure” .

Goddard was the third chairwoman of the public inquiry, which is investigating safeguarding failures in the Diocese of Chichester as well as abuse by the disgraced former bishop Peter Ball.

Ball, now 84, was jailed last year for sex offences against 18 vulnerable young men between 1977 and 1992.