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John Smyth: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby should resign over Makin review – Bishop of the Church of England
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John Smyth: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby should resign over Makin review – Bishop of the Church of England

Justin Welby, we wear glasses and gray hair, look straight at the camera

Wow, where does this photo come from? PA Media

We call this photography, Justin Welby says I seriously pursued details of John Smyth’s 2013 abuse

  • Writer, Aleem Makbool
  • Role, religion editor

A Church of England Bishop has called for the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury after a report said the Church covered up a series of child abuse cases.

Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley will ask the Church’s most senior member, the Reverend Justin Welby, to stand down following the “appalling, appalling and shocking” report.

Oga Welby faces mounting pressure to resign last week after reports of John Smyth QC’s “disgusting” abuse of more than 100 boys and young men were not strictly pursued.

A group has taken to the torch to call out how the church handled the Smyth case and failed to report the case to authorities when Welby presented details from 2013.

Oga Welby said it was true-correct because I was putting more effort into this case and added that I considered resigning last week but decided to stay for my post.

While reviewing the Smyth case, Di Makin said that when I die in 2018, I will bring decades of abuses to justice if the church says there will be no cover-up, and I will formally report to authorities for 2013.

Believe me, they say Smyth is the most prolific serial abuser associated with the Church of England.

Reports state that approximately 130 victims were exposed to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual attacks.

According to the Di report, the Smyth abuse took place over almost five decades and three contracts.

According to Di’s report, 26 to 30 boys and young men were abused in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.

They then move to Africa and exploit “85 to 100 young boys aged 13 to 17”.

Anglican priest Giles Fraser told the BBC that “clergy have no confidence in the Rev. Justin Welby” and that three members of the Church’s parliament – the General Synod – launched a petition calling on Welby to resign over his “failures” to report. Smith’s abuse.

Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley wears pink dress and brown glasses

Wow, where does this photo come from? Diocese of Newcastle

We call this photography, Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley said Church was at risk of losing his reputation at the highest level.

Bishop Hartley told the BBC: “It is very difficult to find the words to adequately respond to the report we have been told.”

“I think they rightly ask the question: ‘Can we really trust the Church of England to keep us safe?’ “And I think my answer right now is ‘no,'” he said.

Dr Hartley says they have worked hard to ensure the Church “continues to make its moral voice heard”, but “given some of the critically important things it is not appropriate for us to buy our own home”.

“We are in danger of completely losing credibility on this front,” he adds.

He said Welby’s resignation “will not solve the safeguarding problem” but “will be a very clear indication that we must not draw the line and that we must move towards independence on safeguarding”.

Who is John Smyth and who are those accused?

John Smyth QC looks on during a hearing.
We call this photography, John Smyth QC believed to be the most prolific serial abuser linked to the Church of England

Smyth is accused of committing a home invasion on behalf of Winchester in the 1970s and 1980s.

They meet and run children at a Christian camp and run one of the leading public schools, including Winchester College.

Smyth carries them home and whips them with a cane.

A report prepared by Channel 4 News for its February 2017 program states that boys were physically abused.

A report by the Rev. Mark Ruston and the Rev. David Fletcher reveals that eight boys received a total of 14,000 lashes, while two or more received 8,000 lashes between three years.

The Iwerne Trust described the practice as “appalling” but claimed no reports were made to the police until 2013 (more than 30 years later).

Bishop Andrew Watson of Guildford, one of Smyth’s victims, describes his “painful and shocking” experience of abuse.

A report in which we obtained full details of the Smyth abuse was presented to some Church leaders in 1982, but no report was made to the police.

The church encourages me to go on contract and move to Zimbabwe and then to South Africa where I would continue the abuse for years until I died in 2018.

Authorities accuse Smyth of killing a 16-year-old boy at one of his summer camps. We have not been convicted of a different crime.

Smyth died aged 75 while under investigation by Hampshire Police.

In a statement, Oga Welby said “I am deeply sorry to say that this abuse took place” and “I am sorry to say that many people were fully aware of this abuse and that I hid it for years. I am also sorry to say that John Smyth bin carried out this abuse abroad.” “We both die to face justice.”

I add: “I have no idea or knowledge of the abuse in 2013.”

Smyth died aged 75 while under investigation by Hampshire Police.

Three members of the General Assembly wrote a petition on Saturday to demand Oga Welby’s resignation.

Di General Synod has almost 500 members and is open to anyone to sign online. We collected 1,500 signatures on Monday morning.

“We believe that it is unreasonable for me to continue as Archbishop of Canterbury to allow the abuse in question to continue,” the petition said.

“We must see change for the good of the survivors, for the protection of the vulnerable, and for the good of the Church.”

Mr Fraser, vicar of St Anne’s Church, Kew, in west London, told BBC Radio 4’s Today program that Mr Welby “really needs to go”.

I remember the abuse I experienced at school and say that the experience was “very traumatic and I won’t leave you.”

“I’m blessed when I’m seven or eight – I’ll be 60 in a few weeks.”

“This idea of ​​continuing to be abused even after we learn that the Church is a disgrace.”

At the weekend, the Church’s safeguarding leader, Bishop Bin, said he welcomed Oga Welby’s apology and said nothing about whether he wanted him to resign.

The Rt Rev Joanne Grenfell, Bishop of Stepney, told the BBC: “I appreciate the archbishop’s wholehearted apology for not acting differently in 2013.”

Mr Welby says he hopes the Makin review will support ongoing work to build a safer church here and around the world, echoing “horror on the scale of John Smyth’s notorious abuse, with a view to a public apology”.