UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Callum May
BBC News
A clergyman who oversaw a children’s home where abuse took place in the 1970s and 80s “never once” reported staff to police, he said in a newly-discovered interview.
The Reverend Nicolas Stacey said children could be “manipulative” and make false claims, in the 2006 tape.
Mr Stacey was a director of social services in Kent at a time when girls were drugged and abused at Kendall House in Gravesend.
He died in May 2017 aged 89.
A review published last year found that girls at the home, which was run by the Church of England, were routinely drugged, locked up, and sexually abused.
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