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Christian Today
Harry Farley JOURNALIST 28 June 2017
Sex abuse survivors are calling for former Archbishop George Carey to face a police investigation for his role in the Church’s collusion with convicted abuser and ex-bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball.
Victims and their lawyers say Lord Carey should relinquish his right to sit in the House of Lords if he his found to have deliberately concealed evidence.
‘It is unacceptable that someone involved in concealing evidence of criminality should have a role in making laws for others,’ a letter from two of Ball’s survivors and their lawyers to the Times reads.
The calls for a police investigation into Lord Carey, backed by the National Secular Society, come after he quit his honorary role as assistant bishop in the Oxford diocese following a damning report by Dame Moira Gibb.
Abuse in Faith, published last week, is highly critical of the Church’s response to the 84-year-old former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester, who was jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after admitting a string of historical sex offences against 18 teenagers and young men.
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