UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
Olivia Rudgard, religious affairs correspondent
22 JUNE 2017
Senior church figures “colluded” with a disgraced bishop to cover up evidence of his sex offences, a report has found.
The report, the result of a year-long enquiry by Dame Moira Gibb, found that senior figures “trivialised” the actions of the disgraced bishop and sought to protect its reputation by covering up evidence of further abuse.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has been heavily criticised by a damning report which condemns the Church of England over its handling of the case of bishop Peter Ball, who was convicted of sex offences in 2015.
The former bishop of Lewes and Gloucester admitted abusing boys as young as 12. He was released from prison earlier this year.
The report found that Lord Carey wrote to Peter Ball’s twin brother Bishop Michael Ball in 1993, after Peter Ball had accepted a caution for gross indecency, saying he believed he was “basically innocent”.
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