UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
Retired bishop Peter Ball – who has been jailed for 32 months after admitting abusing 18 young men across 20 years – was a sadistic sexual predator who groomed, controlled and abused his victims, one of whom ended up taking his own life.
Ball, 83, was part of the establishment of the Church of England, considered both powerful and deeply spiritual.
He abused most of his victims while he lived in East Sussex and was serving as Bishop of Lewes – but would go on to carry on the abuse as Bishop of Gloucester.
He admitted the abuse, which started in the 1970s and continued into the 80s and 90s, at the Old Bailey last month.
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