UNITED KINGDOM
Chichester People
The Bishop of Chichester has this month apologised to a child abuse victim in the US
In a letter of apology to a victim, who now lives in the US, Dr Martin Warner, the Bishop of Chichester who took up the post last year, said there had been “deception and cover-up” at his diocese and conceded there had been an “ineptitude and irresponsible lack of professionalism.”
Former choirboy Gary Johnson, who has waved his anonymity, and his older brother, both from Eastbourne, were abused by Roy Cotton, who worked for the Diocese of Chichester, during the 1970s and 1980s.
The diocese is embroiled in a number of historical clerical sex abuse claims and its child protection policies are the subject of an official inquiry set up by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.
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