UNITED KINGDOM
West Briton
THE Bishop of Truro has apologised to a survivor of abuse by clergy who claimed he failed to act after he revealed his suffering to him more than a decade ago.
The victim of the abuse, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he named Garth Moore as his abuser to the Right Reverend Tim Thornton in 2003 when he was Bishop of Sherborne in Dorset.
Moore, who was an authority on ecclesiastical law and chancellor of the dioceses of Southwark, Gloucester and Durham, died in 1990.
The alleged victim said the abuse by Mr Moore took place when he was a teenager.
But after he made the disclosure to The Bishop no record was made and nothing happened, he said, adding that The Bishop suggested he could come in and inform the diocese but there was no further help offered.
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