I’m Appalled by Church Failures, Says Welby As Priest Is Jailed for Abuse

The Times
February 14, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3689076.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_02_14

Laura Dixon

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Rev Justin Welby, has apologised for “betrayals and failings” in the Church’s handling of child-abuse allegations after it emerged that senior clergy failed to tell police about a priest who was later jailed for sex offences.

Archbishop Welby issued a statement after Robert Coles, 71, a retired Church of England priest, was jailed for eight years yesterday. He had admitting ten counts of indecent assault and another serious sexual offence against three boys aged between 11 and 16.

The offences took place while he was a priest in Sussex between 1979 and 1984. During