UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Retired Church of England bishop, 80, arrested by police over historic child sex abuse allegations at scandal-hit Diocese
By Steve Nolan
Police investigating historic child sex allegations in a scandal-hit diocese arrested a retired Church of England bishop today.
Peter Ball, 80, was arrested at his home in Langport, Somerset, on suspicion of eight sex offences against eight boys and young men aged between 12 and their early twenties in the late Eighties and Nineties, sources said.
The offences are alleged to have taken place in East Sussex and elsewhere within the diocese of Chichester.
Rev Ball, former bishop of Lewes and later Gloucester, has connections with Prince Charles whom he has described in the past as a ‘loyal friend’.
He is thought to be the highest member of the clergy to be arrested in connection with a sex abuse investigation.
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