UNITED KINGDOM
ITV News
As an ITV News investigation discovers dozens of new historical allegations of child sexual abuse within the Church of England have been made in the last few months, one survivor speaks out.
I was groomed and sadistically abused by a senior establishment figure in the Church of England as a teenager in the mid-1970s.
I didn’t only reach out for help – but reached up for it by telling quite senior people in the church – including bishops. None of whom apparently kept any record.
I told in the region of 40 Church of England priests across nearly four decades – and finally got help to report it to the police and the Bishop of Durham last summer.
In the current hierarchy there are a handful of senior figures, including two bishops and others – who knew my story at one time, but seem to have all walked away and forgotten.
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