JERSEY
Daily Mail
Archbishop of Canterbury offers personal apology to victim abused by cleric who was ‘badly let down’ by church investigation
By Anna Edwards
The Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised after the Church of England did not take her allegations of abuse seriously and ‘badly let her down’.
The new Archbishop, Justin Welby, made a personal apology as a senior Church of England cleric was suspended.
The Bishop of Winchester Tim Dakin suspended the Dean of Jersey, the Very Rev Robert Key, yesterday following a critical independent report into the 2008 complaint by the woman of abusive behaviour by a churchwarden in Jersey.
The report, commissioned by the Diocese of Winchester’s Safeguarding Panel, raised concerns that the dean did not take the complaint seriously.
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