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	Bishop 'Protected Sex Abuse Brother' Evening Times (Scotland) June 10, 2008 http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2330023.0.bishop_protected_sex_abuse_brother.php An American Anglican bishop twice walked in on his brother's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl, but did nothing to stop it, a church trial heard. The testimony came as the trial opened in Philadelphia for Bishop Charles Bennison of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. His brother became a priest after the abuse was alleged to have begun. A panel of bishops, priests and church members will decide whether Bennison, the leader of the fifth-largest Episcopal diocese in the US, may resume his duties. The Episcopal Church is the US name for the Anglican Church. Bennison, 64, was ordered to cease all "ministerial and canonical acts" in November. The accuser, now 50, said Charles Bennison witnessed incidents in a Sunday school classroom and in a church office in 1973. John Bennison, who never faced criminal charges, left the priesthood two years ago.
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