UNITED KINGDOM
Oxford Mail
A SENIOR figure in the Church of England has been asked to step down from his role in the Diocese of Oxford over ‘collusion’ in covering up historic sexual abuse.
Lord Carey was Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of abuses carried out by former bishop of Lewes and Gloucester Peter Ball between the 1970s and 1990s.
Ball, now 85, was jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after admitting sex offences against 18 teenagers and young men.
Lord Carey has now been asked to step down by current Archbishop Justin Welby from his role as an honorary assistant bishop at the Diocese of Oxford.
A newly-published independent review found that Lord Carey received seven letters from families and individuals following the arrest and cautioning of Ball in 1992 for gross indecency, but failed to pass six of them to the police.
He chose not to put Ball on the Church of England’s ‘Lambeth List’, which names clergymen about whom questions of suitability for ministry have been raised, and also gave Ball funds to support him.
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