ENGLAND
BBC News
December 21, 2020
A clergyman claims he was “blackballed” by the Church of England after reporting sexual abuse by a priest.
John Skinner said he told the Bishop of Durham about Granville Gibson in the early 1980s but was told not to gossip.
A review into how the Diocese of Durham dealt with complaints about Gibson said others may have been spared abuse if he had been “more robustly challenged”.
The church said Father Skinner’s sense of injustice was “understandable” but a “culture of cover-up” had ended.
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