Lord Carey 'ashamed' sex abuse warnings ignored

SKY News
July 24, 2018

https://news.sky.com/story/lord-carey-i-couldnt-believe-a-bishop-could-do-such-evil-11447080

Lord Carey says he was shocked by what happened with Peter Ball

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is hearing from Lord Carey as it investigates abuse by former bishop Peter Ball.

Lord Carey has now finished giving evidence for the day.

The former Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted he feels "deeply ashamed" that the Church of England failed to act on sexual abuse claims made against disgraced bishop Peter Ball.

He told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that he was "completely shocked" by the crimes committed by Ball, who was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing 18 young men over a period of three decades.

But he admitted that he believed Ball's protestations of innocence for "quite some time", adding that it took many within the church "a little time to catch on to what this man was doing to younger people".

"Looking back now, I would have done things differently," he said.