UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
Church bosses missed three chances to report a child sex abusing vicar to the police, the BBC has learned.
Between 1983 and 1991, the Reverend Ronald Johns sexually abused three boys while working in Cumbria.
In 1993 he admitted his crimes to his Bishop, but instead of reporting him to police the Church of England moved him to a different parish.
Archdeacon of West Cumberland, the Venerable Richard Pratt, said the church missed three chances to report Johns to police delaying an investigation.
In September, Johns, a former canon of Carlisle Cathedral, pleaded guilty at the city’s crown court to assaulting three teenage boys.
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