Sex-claim woman ‘ripped to shreds’ by church lawyers

UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

Sean O’Neill Chief Reporter
March 19 2016

A law professor described yesterday how she was “ripped to shreds” by the Church of England when she made a legal claim over sexual abuse by a vicar when she was a teenager.

Julie Macfarlane said that the church tried to rule her claim out of date, suggested that she had consented to sex with her abuser and put her through a gruelling psychiatric examination before settling her claim last month.

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