UNITED KINGDOM
The Press
THE Church of England has made a six-figure payout to a man who says he suffered years of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of a retired York vicar.
The man, whose identity is protected, received the undisclosed sum 13 years after the Rev Terence King committed suicide on October 31, 2002, while under investigation by West Yorkshire Police over child sex abuse.
Mr King, who was 69 and from Abbey Street, Clifton, was found dead in his garage on October 31, 2002 – the day after he walked out of The Retreat in Heslington Road, York, where he had been receiving treatment.
The man says Mr King made his life hell for eight years when he was a child and Mr King was a vicar at St Mary the Virgin Church at Woodkirk, near Morley, West Yorkshire.
He says the sexual, physical and mental abuse he suffered in the church and vicarage has had a lasting impact on his life.
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