UNITED KINGDOM
Portsmouth News
Ben Fishwick
ben.fishwick@thenews.co.uk
Saturday 11 July 2015
CHURCH leaders have apologised for putting children at risk of child abuse by not sacking a paedophile priest.
It comes as Terry Knight, who in 1996 admitting abusing boys, has for a second time been convicted of abuse in the 1980s at St Saviour’s Church in Stamshaw, Portsmouth.
During a trial over historic abuse claims Knight, now 76, revealed to jurors how the church asked him to promise to ‘control his behaviour’ after mothers of child victims confronted him in 1985.
Claims of a cover-up have been repeatedly denied by the Church of England in Portsmouth.
But now the Diocese of Portsmouth admitted the church put other children at risk by leaving Knight in post between 1985 and 1995 – when he was arrested.
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