UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
Patrick Foster Nicola Harley
2 FEBRUARY 2017
Police are investigating allegations of child abuse taking place at a summer camp where the Archbishop of Canterbury once worked.
The Most Rev Justin Welby has issued an “unreserved and unequivocal” apology on behalf of the Church of England after admitting the Church had failed to report allegation of abuse by John Smyth QCto the police when the alleged abuse came to light in 1982.
Today he said he was “completely unaware” of claims that one of his colleagues at a Christian summer camp had been subjecting boys to savage sado-masochistic beatings.
It raises the possibility that detectives investigating the abuse may want to speak to the Archbishop to if he has any information to help with the inquiry – named Operation Cubic.
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