UNITED KINGDOM
The Sunday Times
Jonathan Corke and James Gillespie Published: 10 January 2016
FULL details of a deal agreed by police and the Church of England to caution a paedophile cleric rather than charge him are revealed today in a dossier obtained by The Sunday Times.
The 29-page report details the conclusions of two detectives who investigated Peter Ball, then Bishop of Gloucester, in 1992-3 over allegations of sex abuse. Ball received a police caution at the time and was brought to court only last October, when he admitted the abuse of 18 young men between 1977 and 1992. He was given a 32-month prison sentence.
One of his victims, Neil Todd, killed himself in 2012.
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