UNITED KINGDOM
The Tablet
March 17, 2020
By Ruth Gledhill
Forty years of public scandal has “forced” the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches to admit they have a problem of child sex abuse, the latest hearing of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has been told.
“No current Catholic or Anglican leader would come before this inquiry now and seriously try to maintain that clerical sex abuse scandals had never happened,” Richard Scorer, representing several core participants, told the first day of the hearing into child protection in “religious organisations and settings”.
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