UNITED KINGDOM
The Independent
Tom Pugh
Friday 16 November 2012
Police investigating allegations of sex offences against boys and young men by a retired Church of England bishop said seven more people have come forward claiming they were abused.
The Rt Rev Peter Ball, 80, was arrested at his home near Langport, Somerset, on Tuesday on suspicion of sex offences against eight boys and young men aged from 12 to their early 20s in East Sussex and elsewhere in the late 1970s and 1990s, sources said.
Since his arrest, Sussex Police said a further seven people have come forward making allegations of abuse against them.
A number of people have also stepped forward with potentially useful information, although not alleging that offences had been committed against them.
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