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John Smyth, a barrister who ran Christian summer camps in the 1970s and 1980s, committed physical, psychological and sexual abuse against more than 100 boys and young men.
Justin Welby has resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury after facing increasing pressure to stand down over his failure to report prolific child abuser John Smyth.
A damning independent review published last week found Mr Welby - the most senior bishop within the Church of England - and other church officers should have formally reported Smyth in 2013 to police in the UK and authorities in South Africa.
Smyth was accused of attacking dozens of boys, including those he met at Christian camps, in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.
Smyth is believed to be the most prolific serial abuser associated with the Church of England.
He sexually, psychologically and physically abused about 30 boys and young men in the United Kingdom and 85 in Zimbabwe and South Africa over five decades.
The first allegations were made against Mr Smyth in 1982, when an internal report by the Iwerne Trust referenced 'horrific' beatings of boys and young men that left some of them bleeding.
The barrister and senior member of a Christian charity then moved to Zimbabwe and later South Africa, where he abused up to 100 boys aged 13 to 17, the Makin review added.
By 2013, the Church of England 'knew, at the highest level' about Smyth's abuse, including Mr Welby, who took up the Church's top job that year.
If... [Welby] and other Church officers had reported this to police in the UK and authorities in South Africa at that time, 'John Smyth could have [been] brought to justice at a much earlier point', the independent report said.
Mr Welby had previously resisted calls to step aside over his response to the case since 2013. But amid mounting pressure, he said in a statement on Tuesday he must take 'personal and institutional responsibility'.
A survivor of Smyth's abuse also called for Mr Welby to go, saying that he felt the Archbishop's admission that he had not done enough in response to the reports meant that both he and the Church of England had effectively been involved in a 'cover-up'.
The petition calling for his resignation, which accused the Archbishop of 'allowing abuse to continue' and said his position was 'no longer tenable', was signed by more than 14,000 people.
The Prime Minister had also publicly said victims of Smyth had been 'failed very, very badly,' but would not comment when asked whether the Archbishop should quit.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is head of the Anglican Communion.
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion, after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches... the Communion has more than 85 million members, within 42/43 autonomous and independent-yet-interdependent national, pan-national and regional churches in communion with the See of Canterbury.
Yeah, not in big cult like webs of deceit where people hold to be the safest place imaginable....
The amount is staggering, is completely disproportionate to any "normal" statistic. Don't be absurd. Temptation is a central theme in the doctrine of the dummies.
school teachers have a higher rate of philia than churches do man.... its about access to kids. philes KNOW what they are and choose careers accordingly.
Idk if this is a troll comment but he's wearing a wedding ring in the photo. Priests can get married in the Church of England. Or you can be married and become a priest (as Welby did). He's been married since 1979 and has six children.
On a tangent Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Justin Welby's first children all died. Probably just a coincidence, I wouldn't worry about it.
school teachers have a higher rate of philia than churches do man.... its about access to kids. philes KNOW what they are and choose careers accordingly.
You're not wrong you leathery old prick. Nice way to whatabout the issue though. People raised in strict chastity historically show perverted excess to said restrictions later in life. Textbook example is the nonsense brought on by most churches.
These people are cunts, has happened with plenty of clergy members in Australia, I'm sure plenty more got away with shit too and fucked up a lot of people's lives for ever.
You're not wrong you leathery old prick. Nice way to whatabout the issue though. People raised in strict chastity historically show perverted excess to said restrictions later in life. Textbook example is the nonsense brought on by most churches.
i am not and would not ever whataboutism this issue. I want every phile AND every single person who knew and covered it up burnt with the fire of ten thousand suns.
but accuracy is important here. the real problem is not celibacy or religious indoctrination or school teachers either.
the real problem is peoples profoundly naive willingness to trust workers who have access to kids. its amazing to me that any institution religious medical or otherwise still allows any single adult to have access to children in closed quarters... ever. parents especially are fucking stupid this way.
I've got a 14 year old daughter and I have NEVER let any adult have access to my daughter in closed quarters. only a fool would and there are so many of them.
these types go to college and choose careers to get access to kids man..... and we KNOW that and yet we act so surprised when it happens.
i am not and would not ever whataboutism this issue. I want every phile AND every single person who knew and covered it up burnt with the fire of ten thousand suns.
but accuracy is important here. the real problem is not celibacy or religious indoctrination or school teachers either.
the real problem is peoples profoundly naive willingness to trust workers who have access to kids. its amazing to me that any institution religious medical or otherwise still allows any single adult to have access to children in closed quarters... ever. parents especially are fucking stupid this way.
I've got a 14 year old daughter and I have NEVER let any adult have access to my daughter in closed quarters. only a fool would and there are so many of them.
these types go to college and choose careers to get access to kids man..... and we KNOW that and yet we act so surprised when it happens.
No, it's because we're close relatives with Bonobos, a species clearly engaged in all kinds of bizarre sexual perversions and hedonistic behaviour. We just do it with nicer clothes on. And a haircut.
You're right that certain professions open up more ability for these expressions to show themselves.
Idk if this is a troll comment but he's wearing a wedding ring in the photo. Priests can get married in the Church of England. Or you can be married and become a priest (as Welby did). He's been married since 1979 and has six children.
On a tangent Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Justin Welby's first children all died. Probably just a coincidence, I wouldn't worry about it.
school teachers have a higher rate of philia than churches do man.... its about access to kids. philes KNOW what they are and choose careers accordingly.
The problem here, and why many have issues with Catholics, is the widespread cover up of the horrific crimes that these priests committed. Those cover ups allowed priests to continue their reign of terror across the world.
The problem here, and why many have issues with Catholics, is the widespread cover up of the horrific crimes that these priests committed. Those cover ups allowed priests to continue their reign The cover up terror across the world.
Well you will get no argument from me there every single person that knew about it and helped cover it up should face criminal and civil charges and be rooted out of the church completely.
I understand that covering up sexual abuse seems to be a natural human response, but anybody who does so and doesn't turn them in to the law has committed a grievous sin and broken the law and should be punished.
And I feel like it's doubly sinful and doubly wrong that a church that's supposed to be holding higher principles for the world would act just like any other organization.
Why aren't leading democrats and left wing radicals standing down for sterilizing thousands of small children below the age of consent for transexual surgeries? Just as bad if not worse.
A day after the Archbishop of Canterbury resigned, a Church of England bishop says "in some ways, we are not a safe institution"
Julie Conalty - the Bishop of Birkenhead, and deputy lead bishop for safeguarding - tells the BBC "we have this institutional problem where we are not putting victims and survivors at the centre"
Justin Welby resigned yesterday, days after a damning report into abuse at Christian camps by John Smyth
The review, published last week, said Welby "could and should" have reported Smyth's abuse of boys and young men to police in 2013
Welby said that, in 2013, he was told police had been notified and "believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow"
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Conspicuous by his absence is "choir boy" @Croo67 - wrong kind of perpetrator?
A day after the Archbishop of Canterbury resigned, a Church of England bishop says "in some ways, we are not a safe institution"
Julie Conalty - the Bishop of Birkenhead, and deputy lead bishop for safeguarding - tells the BBC "we have this institutional problem where we are not putting victims and survivors at the centre"
Justin Welby resigned yesterday, days after a damning report into abuse at Christian camps by John Smyth
The review, published last week, said Welby "could and should" have reported Smyth's abuse of boys and young men to police in 2013
Welby said that, in 2013, he was told police had been notified and "believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow"
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Conspicuous by his absence is "choir boy" @Croo67 - wrong kind of perpetrator?
You're not wrong you leathery old prick. Nice way to whatabout the issue though. People raised in strict chastity historically show perverted excess to said restrictions later in life. Textbook example is the nonsense brought on by most churches.
There are tens of thousand of single men in this country, but they don’t go around raping little boys.
When a is convicted, do you say “well, if he had been married, he wouldn’t have raped that child?”
Of course you don’t. So quit trying to use that excuse for priests.
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