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Lets start with the fact that it isn't true.
Rape gangs. Why does the Home Office minister not want a national public enquiry?
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Blimey perhaps you have grounds to complain about the Jay report
And her un true ?? In your opinion ?? Comments about grooming gangs ??
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Good man!
Take a few deep breaths Noseall
And get that heart rate down
Blimey we would not want you to have a stroke
When mottie comes out and states categorically that all child abusers are equally at fault regardless of colour/race/religion/nationality then I'll stop calling him out on his posts...
I will of course (should this come to pass), still call out others who refuse to do likewise!
In this thread, yes. That’s what it’s about.
Ah, I see. You've no examples so you revert to silliness and gobbledegook. True to form.
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Lost count of the times I’ve said it but just for you I’ll say it again so that you can STFU: All child abusers of any colour/race/religion/nationality are dirty perverted c***s and should face the most severe penalties. It’s just that I’ve yet to come across a story of a organised white grooming gang that targets young Asian girls. Have you?
There have been many cases of sexual abuse within the Church of England and the Church in Wales.[11][12][13] In the 1970s concern was raised over Jeremy Dowling, a lay minister and employee of the Diocese of Truro, and a member of the general synod from 1977. Dowling was accused of sex abuse at specified schools and of sadistic behaviour. Maurice Key was Bishop of Truro at the time and until 1990; Michael Ball succeeded Key.[14]
In 1993, Peter Ball, who had co-founded a monastic community called the Community of the Glorious Ascension with his brother Michael Ball in 1960, was the suffragan Bishop of Lewes in the Diocese of Chichester from 1977 to 1992 and then the diocesan Bishop of Gloucester from 1992 to 1993,[15] resigned after admitting to an act of gross indecency with a 19-year-old former novice at the monastery, and accepting a formal police caution for it.[15][16] Ball continued to serve in churches after that.[17] During Peter Ball's trial in 2015, it emerged that in 1993 Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyers had determined that "sufficient admissible, substantial and reliable evidence" existed that Ball had committed indecent assault and gross indecency.[17] However, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Barbara Mills, had decided not to prosecute Ball, as a member of the royal family, a lord chief justice, JPs, cabinet ministers and public school headmasters—"many dozens" of people—had campaigned to support him at that time.[15][18]
In 2007, Peter Halliday, a choirmaster in Guildford in Surrey, who had told the church that he had abused children in the 1990s but was allowed to continue working with children, was convicted of three counts of sexual abuse of children, and police were concerned that there had been many more cases.[19]
In light of this event and the public airing of the church's bad handling of Halliday, as well as two other high-profile sexual abuse convictions, the House of Bishops decided in May 2007 to ask the Central Safeguarding Liaison Group to hold a review of past cases throughout the Church of England, which was carried out starting in 2008.[20]: 9, 12 [21] The Diocese of Chichester and the Sussex Police also began investigating long-standing allegations of sexual abuse in East Sussex.[21][22] The Chichester diocesan past review cases report was commissioned in 2009 and run by Roger Meekings.[21][23]
In 2008, Colin Pritchard, a vicar in Bexhill-on-Sea was convicted of sexually abusing two boys; The Guardian described it as the "breakthrough case" for dealing with sexual abuse in the Chichester diocese.[21] Roy Cotton, a priest in the Chichester diocese died in 2006 but allegations of abuse by him emerged shortly thereafter.[21] In 2018, Pritchard, who by then had changed his name to Ifor Whittaker, was convicted of further sexual abuse that he had carried out in collaboration with Cotton.[24]
In 2010 the Church of England past cases review was published.[20]: 9, 12 [25]
In 2011 the Diocese of Chichester asked Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to conduct an independent review of the way the Pritchard and Cotton cases were handled by the Chichester diocese.[21] In December 2011 the Archbishop of Canterbury opened an official inquiry (an archiepiscopal visitation) of the Chichester diocese due to the severity of the sexual abuse problem there; the last time such an inquiry had been established was in the 1890s.[26]
The Meekings Chichester past cases review report was made public in February 2012 and the next day, the Church of England issued a rare public apology in response to the report's damning description of the way the church handled Cotton and Pritchard and failed to protect and care for people abused by them.[23][27]
In March 2012 two retired Chichester vicars, Gordon Rideout and Robert Coles, were arrested based on information from the past cases review and the Butler-Sloss report.[28]
In May 2012 the review and historic files about Peter Ball were given to the Sussex Police.[15][17] Ball and another priest, Vickery House, were arrested in November 2012[29] and Ball was put on trial in 2014.[15]
The Butler-Sloss report on the handling of Cotton and Pritchard was published in December 2012[21][30] and was severely criticised when it was released.[31]
In 2014 the UK government set up the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to investigate how the government had handled allegations of sexual abuse and Butler-Sloss was appointed to lead it.[12][13][32] Objections were raised to her participation.[33] The final straw came when Phil Johnson, who by that time was a member of the National Safeguarding Panel for the church, and who had been abused by Cotton and Pritchard and had given testimony to Butler-Sloss during her 2011 inquiry, made it public that he had told Butler-Sloss about abuse by Peter Ball and that she had chosen to omit that in her report.[31][33] The inquiry was disbanded and re-established the next year, and in November 2015 the panel said it would be include the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church in its investigations.[34]
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