UNITED KINGDOM
Liverpool Echo
Diocese of Liverpool vows thorough investigation will take place into claims about St Mary’s Anglican Church priest Reverend William Cameron
Liverpool-born Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has alleged she was abused by an Anglican vicar as a child.
The former I’m a Celebrity contestant, who grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool, detailed the allegations after revealing stories of child sexual abuse described in her novels are based on her own experience.
Ms Dorries alleged she was abused by Anglican vicar and family friend Reverend William Cameron when she was nine.
He was better known to parishioners by his middle name James and made priest-in-charge at St Mary’s Anglican Church in Halewood in 1966 shortly before the abuse began, she told the Mail on Sunday.
The Diocese of Liverpool today vowed the allegations would be “thoroughly, appropriately and sensitively investigated”.
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