UNITED KINGDOM
Christian Today
Ruth Gledhill Editor 06 February 2017
A victim of alleged physical abuse by a prominent Çhristian lawyer has given an extraordinary testimony of the effect that thousands of beatings had upon him.
He was speaking after a series of disclosures by Channel 4 News about allegations of physical abuse inflicted on young male evangelical Christians by barrister John Smyth, who ran popular Christian summer camps attended also by the present Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
Speaking anonymously to the Telegraph, the victim, now 56, says he has contacted the police as a result of the Channel 4 reports.
Describing how it began, he says that as a “pretty” boy he was frequently molested by other boys at his prep and public schools.
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