Dr John Sentamu gives blessing to trawl of church archives in search for paedophile priests

UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

Sean O’Neill Crime Editor
Published at 12:01AM, August 17 2013

A trawl of Church of England archives has begun in an effort to find paedophile priests, dead or alive, who may have escaped justice. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has ordered all files on clergy in his diocese to be retrieved and examined by an independent child protection expert.

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