BERMUDA
Royal Gazette
By Raymond Hainey
Bermuda’s Anglican church has become the first on the Island to train its parish priests to spot and prevent child sex abuse.
Clergy from every parish have undergone a special training course by anti-child abuse charity SCARS — and the church now plans to extend the training to lay people like youth leaders and Sunday school teachers.
“The clergy and I found the training provided by SCARS enlightening and extremely helpful in defining how we can collaborate with the community in the fight against child sexual abuse,” Nicholas Dill, the Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, said. “We plan to further push this agenda within the church from the top down.
“Our involvement with SCARS does not end with the completion of the training.
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