UNITED KINGDOM
The Argus
CAMPAIGNERS yesterday called for church leaders, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to “hang their heads in shame” after the former Bishop of Lewes was poised to spend less than a month in prison for each of his victims.
The 32 month sentence handed down by a judge to Peter Ball was branded “a failure to do justice” as the 83-year-old is expected to serve half of that.
Ball was sentenced for two individual counts of indecent assaults, and one count of misconduct in a public office which encompassed acts of “debasement” perpetrated on sixteen young men who had come to his home seeking spiritual enlightenment.
After the sentencing a former Archbishop of Canterbury was forced to deny that his involvement in the case in the 1990s amounted to a “cover-up”.
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