Response of Bishop of Crediton, Sarah Mullally, to Elliott Review

On 4 December 2015,  the Church Times reported that the Church of England has paid £35,000 in compensation and apologised to a survivor of clerical sexual abuse, named as Garth Moore, a leading authority on ecclesiastical law and Chancellor of the dioceses of Southwark, Durham and Gloucester. Moore, who died in 1990, was Vicar of St Mary Abchurch, where the victim was a server. Offering an unreserved apology, a spokeswoman for the Church indicated that it have launched an independently-led review of lessons learnt from this case, (“the Elliott Review”); when completed this would be shared with the survivor, and the findings published.

Details of the findings of the Elliott Review have now been published and at the request of the survivor, the Bishop of Crediton, Sarah Mullally,  has responded:   Continue reading →