WALES
Wales Online
The Church in Wales has paid nearly £60,000 in compensation to a victim of sex abuse by a paedophile vicar – believed to be the largest payment made by an Anglican church.
Officials at the Church in Wales admitted a failure to properly supervise clergyman Stephen Brooks who carried out 19 assaults on children over a seven-year period.
Former vicar Brooks, 62, was jailed in 1994 after admitting raping young boys in Sketty, Swansea , during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
One of his victims was too traumatised to give evidence against the vicar despite telling police he had been abused at St Paul’s Church in Sketty.
But a civil case launched by his solicitors 22 years after Brooks was jailed claimed the church was partly responsible for the sexual assaults.
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