The Archbishop of Canterbury resigns after failing to report lots of of sexual abuses dedicated by a collaborator | EUROtoday

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LONDON – Earthquake within the Anglican Church: Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned in the present day for failing to disclose the “conspiracy of silence” on the psychological, bodily and sexual abuse perpetrated for many years towards over 100 kids and younger folks by John Smyth , a lawyer who labored for the Church.

“Having sought the permission of His Majesty the King, I have decided to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury and I hope this decision demonstrates that the Church of England understands the need for change and is committed to creating a safer Church,” he wrote Welby in his letter -. I depart workplace with deep sorrow for all victims of abuse. The previous couple of days have renewed my deep sense of disgrace on the manner during which the Church of England has failed in its responsibility to safeguard up to now.”

Welby’s position has been made untenable by the publication last week of the Makin Review, a report into abuse perpetrated by Smyth. The report states that if Welby had informed the police and taken an active part ten years ago as soon as he became aware of the situation, the lawyer would have been arrested and convicted for his crimes.

“When I was informed of the abuse in 2013 and told that the police had been informed, I mistakenly believed that the matter would be resolved in an appropriate way,” Welby wrote. It is clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long period between 2013 and 2024.”

Over 130 boys suffered abuse, Smyth went unpunished

Instead, Smyth, who the report says abused greater than 130 boys in Britain, Zimbabwe and South Africa within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, died in Cape Town in 2018 with out struggling any penalties for his actions. When his abuse was found in 2013, and Welby was made conscious of it, the Church allowed him to maneuver to South Africa the place he continued to torture younger folks with impunity, utilizing his position as ‘ethical information’ to manage them bodily and psychologically.