UNITED KINGDOM
Chichester Observer
The Bishop of Chichester Martin Warner has today apologised after former diocese bishop George Bell was revealed as a paedophile.
The Right Reverend George Bell died in 1958 and he was Bishop of Chichester from 1929 until his death.
The apology follows the settlement of a legal civil claim regarding sexual abuse.
“The allegations against Bell date from the late 1940s and early 1950s and concern allegations of sexual offences against an individual who was at the time a young child,” said the statement from the diocese.
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