UNITED KINGDOM
ITV
The woman at the centre of an alleged abuse investigation, involving the Anglican Church in Jersey, has rejected a formal apology.
The Bishop of Winchester, Tim Dakin, has told ITV News he wrote to her to say sorry that ‘investigating her case had caused her further distress.’
But today she has hit back, describing it as a “pretence of apology.”
The allegation of abuse, involving a church warden, was investigated in 2013, and led to the temporary suspension of Jersey’s Dean, Bob Key, over his handling of the case.
He has received his own apology from the Archbishop of Canterbury for the “stress, hurt and uncertainty” of the past three years.
An investigation into the specific alleged abuse incident, and a wider study of safeguarding in Jersey’s church, are yet to be published.
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