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The chief cleric of the church of england covers up a sex abuse scandal... The head of the church of england* protected someone in a previous sex abuse scandal, and was a friend of Jimmy Saville, Britains most notorious sex abuser. Religion stinks, to its' very core.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gvpyzxvjpo
* Google who the head of the church of england is.
beaubrent
He should dtand in Canterbury cathedral with his robes on and have them ceremoniously cut off, then thrown in prison.
Freak0zoid
This fucker looks like the guy from V for Vendetta.
icer190
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
StellaMatutina
Every Christian is complicit. Make them afraid to wear that shit in public unless they are unafraid of public scrutiny and teams of men following them into restrooms making sure they don't get up to hanky panky. Fuck you, that's what y'all have done to LGBT, I'm sure God will grant you strength
ALLCAPSROCK
cal75
What's so strange about men saying your body, my choice, priests have been saying that to kids for hundreds of years.
PolitiCat
Ban all religions.
Lassannn
Now take away all his Goddamned fucking titles, like GCVO, which is Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. Strip his ass of absolutely everything.
knivesthebrutal
including clothing, and throw him in the worst prison you can find. Lose his papers. Divide all his money and assets up amongst his victims. Call it a day.
gsmdo
Good riddance to bad rubbish
nqwazi
Shouldn't the police be investigating a charge of perverting the course of justice?
WenTheEternallySurprised
They need to go right to the head of the church and just deal with this once and for all. Who runs this outfit, isn't it that Charles guy?
doireallyneedausernameffs
He doesn't run anything, he's only the nominal head. The Archbishop is in charge.
WenTheEternallySurprised
Why, I think you've missed my point completely.
Shiznit007
Now do Trump!
AvsFreak
"Church"
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
Oh no, so terrible. Now watch how absolutely nothing changes about it.
donsterkay
I guess they're just trying to keep up with the Vatican.
corylusavellana
If there are Spaniards or Portugues here, please tell us about uncovering child rape in Spainish and Portugues churches.
We Anglophones hear suprisingly little about it, but it doesn't seem likely that it doesn't happen.
knivesthebrutal
Not a drag... wait a minute... do the right consider men who dress in dresses and ridiculously gaudy jewelry drag queens? Either way, throw his ass in jail.
ricpaul
https://imgur.com/RemX6Hc
hellospacemonkey
LOS ANGELES 2024 — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of clergy, NEW YORK 2024 - more than $323 million to about 530 sex abuse survivors. Total: these two: $1.2 Billion dollars. Can't tax the Church, but I wish there were justice and at least a law that says any religious settlement for child abuse has to be 2x so that society can build more safety and counseling. Victims get these funds, but there always needs to be punitive awards even when they settle.
gerf
Different church,FYI
hellospacemonkey
Yes, I only brought up the $1.2 Billion and didn't tally all the other churches that have had settlements. Just posted because any religious institute should be penalized further for any settlement it makes.
Melonfish
Good, get fucked.
Zapathasura
So he just gets away with it like that? By stepping down? He allowed it to happen! Lock him up for fuck sake!
Showsni
He wasn't Archbishop in the 1970s, how did he allow it to happen?
lospaturno
I don't want him to resign, I want him to rot in jail.
Munchman347
'Organized Religion' is a business... Like all big business' it works to protect it's revenue sources, even if it means covering up scandals...
Thorketil
DaffydeDick
These kid fuckers get to resign as punishment. Why aren't they being arrested, convicted and sent to prison?
Showsni
In this instance, he was being extradited back from Africa to England to stand trial, when he died.
Huhwhatcrazy
Fuck organised religion
Huhwhatcrazy
And tax the cunts
Smidge204
I can only assume he was offered a job in the Trump administration...
Freak0zoid
This is the British church, so highly unlikely.
Showsni
There are culpable members of the clergy here, though after reading through the full report I'm not sure Justin Welby is particularly guilty of anything. He was new in the post at the time (2013), and didn't follow up on something his chaplain told him was in hand and had been reported to the police. The actions of the people who wrote the original 1982 report, and the headmaster of Winchester College, seem more suspect - that does seem like a coverup, though they claim it was for the victims.
Showsni
It seems to me (and to the writers of the new Makin report) that they were at least partially motivated by not wanting to tarnish the Iwerne camps, or the college, or something. So instead they chased the abuser out of the country, where he continued the abuse in Africa, possibly leading to a boy's death.
corylusavellana
'Church before children'. Dumping rapist clergy in Africa is actually the standard practice for the CoE.
DinosaursCameFromSpace
The head of the CoE is also protecting his brother
Fabulously
The nonce you mean….
mward1984
I assure you he isn't. He's cut the bastard off from the millions, yanked his snout out of the trough for good, and almost certainly told him that if he ever, EVER, opens his mouth in front of a camera again, he will wake up the next morning in the Tower, chained to a wall next to skeletons of the last two princes who got locked up there.
Honestly, Prince Andrew still being alive is the biggest piece of evidence that Diana wasn't murdered by the Royal Family, because holy fuck.
Blimjoe
Don't conflate the value of a Spencer for the value of a **Windsor**
And remember kids, Prince Andrew doesn't sweat so it couldnt have been him.
mward1984
It is worth remembering that the reason why Prince Andrew was never actually charged with criminal offences not because the CPS is somehow under the shadowy control of the Royal Family, but more because Jeffrey Epstein forgot to check the age of consent in the UK before he forced a 16 year old to have sex with Andy. The whole point of this was that Epstein wanted to entrap and blackmail him, the woman in question has revealed as such under oath.
mward1984
The legal age of Consent in the UK is 16. What Andrew did was abhorrent, wretched, tawdry, gross, immoral and foul, but what it WASN'T, was illegal.
That's why the legal case against him was a civil one, not a criminal one. It's also, going back to the initial point, why Jeffrey Epstein didn't hang himself.
TheJackKetch
And so he should bloody well take accountability, having known that the abuse was happening for something like 5 years and just assumed ‘the authorities’ would take action. I don’t think we’ll see the top priest of the catholic church do the same and take accountability for the decades of systemic abuse that was covered up in full knowledge of their church, will we…
CptJohnYossarian
5 years is out by at least 2 orders of magnitude.
TheJackKetch
Yeah, I meant for this particular case, as reported. I accept that’s probably a rosy view tho.
Showsni
It was 2013 when he was made aware of the abuse, and 2018 when the perpetrator died - I assume that's the 5 years being referred to here.
CptJohnYossarian
Bet he fuckn knew about more abuse before that.
ReasonablySorryButNotTooMuch
Decades? It is quite literally centuries...
RadishIsAMeat
Referring to the specific instance in the article when he was told of abuse by a former clergyman in 2013 and did nothing with the information until the police case opening in 2018.
TheJackKetch
Difficult for one guy to take accountability of centuries of abusers - but those that this current pope has been aware of during his career and not cleaned out proactively, is what I meant.
Showsni
To be fair to him, he was also told in 2013 that the police had been informed, and they'd said not to take any action until their investigation was completed. That the case was being dealt with in the diocese where it was reported, and letters had been written to Africa.
TheJackKetch
I mean, any other job - if you were in a position of authority, and became aware of evidence of long term abuse, you’d sack them, deny all privileges and *hand them over to* the authorities. Not leave them in a position to continue their abuse whilst you assumed someone else was sorting it out.
Showsni
He wasn't in a position of authority over the abuser - Smyth wasn't a clergyman, and didn't work for the CofE. The report does say that Welby should have used his links to bishops in Africa to try and follow up more rigorously, instead of assuming the letter from the Bishop of Ely would mean the African authorities and church would get more involved. You can sense the desperation from the Ely safeguarding officer trying to get anyone in Africa to reply to her, very sad.