UNITED KINGDOM
Premier
Fri 07 Jul 2017
By Alex Williams
Survivors of abuse within the Church of England have been setting out their demands, following a damning independent review.
There is a call for safeguarding processes concerning children and vulnerable people to be handled by a body without links to the church.
Graham Sawyer – who was abused by Bishop Peter Ball – told the Guardian: “I fear that until it does so this is going to become worse and worse as matters have simply gone too far now.”
The ‘An Abuse of Faith’ review published by Dame Moira Gibb last month found the church had colluded and concealed abuse committed by Ball (pictured below). The Archbishop of Canterbury Most Rev Justin Welby later offered an unreserved apology.
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