UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian
Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
@harrietsherwood
Friday 4 December 2015
The Church of England has paid £35,000 in compensation and apologised to a survivor of clerical sexual abuse in the latest in a string of cases involving senior church figures.
The diocese of London has also agreed to an independent review of how the church handled the allegations of abuse, which date back to the 1980s.
The settlement was made days after Judge Lowell Goddard’s independent inquiry into child sex abuse announced that the church would be among its first investigations.
The survivor, who has remained anonymous, named his abuser as Garth Moore, an authority on ecclesiastical law and chancellor of the dioceses of Southwark, Durham and Gloucester. Moore died in 1990.
The survivor was 16 at the time of the abuse and an occasional server at St Mary Abchurch in the City of London, where Moore was vicar.
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