Church Child Sex Abuse Inquiry Revealed Stupidity and Lying, Claims Bishop

By Kaya Burgess
The Times
March 19, 2018

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/church-child-sex-abuse-inquiry-revealed-stupidity-and-lying-claims-bishop-xgpr9jvvh

The Right Rev Alan Wilson, the Bishop of Buckingham, said that an independent body should handle safeguarding within the Church

A child sex abuse inquiry has exposed “stupidity, incompetence and lying” at the highest levels of the Church of England a serving bishop has said, calling for an independent body to oversee safeguarding policy.

During two weeks of evidence sessions, with another week still to go, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has heard numerous accounts of abusers within the church whose offences were ignored, dismissed or covered up by senior figures.

The Right Rev Alan Wilson, the Bishop of Buckingham, agreed with calls on Twitter for the handling of safeguarding policy within the church to be handed to an independent external body. He wrote: “Yes. A terrible week with evidence of stupidity, incompetence, lying, dumping responsibility at every level including the highest.…