UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
More than 2,000 people have signed a petition calling for the Church of England to re-examine the case against a former Bishop of Chichester.
Last year the church acknowledged that a woman had been sexually abused by the late George Bell in the 1940s and 1950s when she was a child.
It apologised and paid compensation to the victim.
Campaigners supporting the bishop said the case should be reopened as there was “a strong case for his defence”.
Dr Ruth Hildebrandt Grayson, a supporter of the George Bell Group, said: “In light of the fact that a strong case for the late bishop’s defence has now been assembled by a number of people with close connections to him, there is no excuse for the church to delay a fresh investigation any further.”
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