WELLS (ENGLAND)
Somerset Live
February 2, 2020
By Anna Gladwin
Peter Ball sexually abused teenagers and young men over decades
A woman from Wells was among the individuals who helped expose a dark secret in the Church of England, a television programme has revealed.
A BBC documentary, Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret, recounted the decades of sexual abuse carried out by former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball, who was the subject of a shocking cover up by the Church of England.
Teenager and novice monk Neil Todd was the first victim to tell senior clergy about Peter Ball’s sex crimes.
Among Ball’s sickening actions, he would sleep naked with his victims, watch them take cold showers and strip them naked to beat them, the documentary explained.
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