UNITED KINGDOM
ITV
By Rebecca Barry: ITV News Correspondent
The Church of England has announced it will investigate claims that senior clerics helped cover-up sex crimes committed by a former Bishop.
Peter Ball, 83, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey this week after admitting a string of offences against young men from the 1970s to 1990s. But his victims claim, for decades, the Church of England prevented him from facing justice.
Graham Sawyer, who was abused by Ball when he was a teenager tells ITV News the church’s behaviour had been “deeply corrupt, deeply sinister and it must be exposed”.
“The truth must come out about those who protected him at that time,” he adds.
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