UNITED KINGDOM
Morning Star
Sunday 02 December 2012
by Peter Frost
Large Establishment organisations like the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church and even the BBC have always been more concerned to protect their own reputations than to protect young people abused by their employees.
The recent Jimmy Savile scandal and countless examples from Catholic dioceses all over the globe have proved that.
Abuse by those in power appears to be everywhere – even it seems within the Church of England.
This month a canon at Carlisle Cathedral was jailed for four years for sexually abusing three teenage boys.
Complaints were made about Ronald Johns 20 years ago but his bishop covered it up, moving the abusing canon to a remote country parish.
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