ENGLAND
BBC News
December 17, 2020
Church officials dismissed claims a priest was sexually abusing young men as “drunkenness”, a report has found.
Granville Gibson was jailed in 2016 and again last year for sexual offences committed in the 1970s and 80s.
In a review of how the Diocese of Durham handled complaints about Gibson, clinical psychologist Dr Stephanie Hill said a number of “red flags” were missed.
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