UNITED KINGDOM
AFP
Two men in their 70s were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of sexual abuse of young men and children as police investigate claims of abuses by Church of England vicars decades ago.
Sussex police said that child protection detectives had been investigating the allegations for six months after a confidential review by former top judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss of abuse claims in the Diocese of Chichester.
The arrests come two days after the Church of England said it was “deeply sorry” for allowing a convicted paedophile to be ordained as a priest in the same diocese in 1966.
A 73-year-old man was arrested near Eastbourne on Tuesday on suspicion of nine sexual assaults on young people in West Sussex, Barkingside and Hampshire between 1965 and 1972.
The second man, aged 70, was arrested in Eastbourne over the sexual assaults of three young men in West Sussex in the 1970s and 1980s.
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