UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
Bishop Peter Ball has been summonsed to court over two alleged sexual offences which took place in Litlington and Berwick.
Bishop Ball, 82, a former Bishop of Lewes and currently of Aller, near Langport in Somerset, had already been summonsed in March this year for alleged:
– Misconduct in public office between October 1977 and December 1992 while a Bishop in the Church of England, by misusing his position and authority to manipulate and prevail upon others for his own sexual gratification;
– Indecent assault on a boy then aged between 12 and 13, in 1978;
– Indecent assault on man aged 19 to 20 between 1980 and 1982.
All those offences are alleged to have taken place at Litlington.
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