UNITED KINGDOM
Gloucestershire Live
BY ROBIN JENKINS
22 JUN 2017
Some of the Church of England’s most senior figures colluded with a disgraced former Bishop of Gloucester who tried to cover up his sexual offences.
The situation was revealed today in an independent report into Peter Ball’s abuse of boys and men over at least 20 years.
Dame Moira Gibb’s report revealed that one man, Neil Todd, killed himself in 2012 after being abused by Ball in Gloucester in 1992.
The expose of what happened, and the failure of the Church to respond appropriately to his misconduct, led to the current Bishop of Gloucester, the Right Revd Rachel Treweek, saying she was “greatly shocked and distressed” by what she described as a “devastating account” of Ball’s abuse.
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