UNITED KINGDOM
AFP
LONDON — A retired Church of England bishop was among two clergymen arrested on Tuesday by police investigating allegations of sex abuse dating back three decades.
Peter Ball, 80, the former bishop of Lewes and Gloucester, is being held on suspicion of abusing eight boys and young men aged from 12 to their early 20s in the late 1980s and 1990s.
A 67-year-old retired priest, named by British media as Vickery House, was also detained at his home on suspicion of separate sex offences against two teenage boys between 1981 and 1983, Sussex Police said.
The abuse is alleged to have taken place in East Sussex in southern England.
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