Prince Charles to give evidence at child sexual abuse inquiry

UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News

July 19, 2018

The Prince of Wales exchanged letters with disgraced former bishop Peter Ball, who was jailed for abusing young men.

The Prince of Wales is to give evidence at a long-running inquiry into institutional child sexual abuse.

Prince Charles will provide a written statement to be read next Thursday at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which is looking into the handling of allegations made against disgraced ex-bishop Peter Ball.

The former bishop of Gloucester – whose diocese covers the prince’s country home of Highgrove – was sentenced to 32 months in 2015 for sexually abusing young men in the 1970s.

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