UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
An independent review is to be carried out into how the Church of England handled the case of a former bishop named as an alleged paedophile.
The church settled the civil claim of a woman who said she was abused by the late Bishop of Chichester, George Bell, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The review will look at how it handled the allegations, first made in 1995, and the decision to settle the case.
Bishop Bell’s supporters have been critical of the church’s investigation.
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