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Barry and District News
by Dominic Jones
CHANGES to the way the Jehovah’s Witness Church deal with child abuse allegations are being sought by victims of Barry sex predator Mark Sewell.
Two of the women who suffered at the hands of the Barry church elder are also taking legal action against the church, saying that they were failed by a culture of secrecy that “protected” Sewell.
In July, Mark Sewell, 53, was jailed for 14 years after being found guilty of one count of rape and seven accounts of sexual assault at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.
The offences stretched back more than 20 years, during a time when Sewell, of Porthkerry Road, Barry was a trusted and respected church elder.
One of his victims, his niece Karen Morgan, is spearheading a campaign against practices within the church that she says allowed sexual predator Sewell to run rampant.
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