UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
An Eastbourne man who was sexually abused as a child by Church of England priest Roy Cotton has confronted his past and says he can finally move forward with his life.
Brian Bond, 49, was featured in the BBC South East Inside Out programme on Monday night and filmed meeting the family he has not seen for more than 40 years and chatting to the Bishop of Chichester Dr Martin Warner about the abuse he suffered.
Brian was born in Birmingham but placed into foster care in Eastbourne as a baby in 1965 by his single mother.
However, he said his formative years were far from happy, with mistreatment from his foster mother leaving him psychologically and physically abused.
At the age of eight, Mr Bond came into contact with the Reverend Roy Cotton, a Church of England priest at St Andrew’s in Seaside, who he met through a church connected to his primary school and was subjected to a prolonged period of violent sexual abuse, and also sexually abused by one of his associates.
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