UNITED KINGDOM
Christian Today
One of the bishops accused by a Church of England priest of ignoring cries for help over his abuse by another priest as a young man has said he is willing to meet him and discuss the issue.
Interviewed this morning on the BBC’s Sunday programme, the Bishop of Oxford, Steven Croft, said he was sorry Rev Matt Ineson ‘feels he wasn’t heard’ and wanted to meet him to discuss the situation.
Ineson was abused three decades ago while he was a teenager and living at the home of Rev Trevor Devamanikkam following a family breakdown. Devamanikkam committed suicide earlier this year before police were due to arrest him.
Ineson has lodged complaints of misconduct against the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, and four serving bishops including Croft, claiming that they had failed to act on his disclosures of rape. The complaints, made under the C of E’s clergy disciplinary measure, were dismissed because they were filed outside the one-year limit required by the Church.
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