Pope Orders Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse - London
Gloria.TV – News Briefs 26/10/2011 06:17:07
Photo ~ Under scrutiny: The investigation is looking into claims of abuse at St Benedict's from as far back as the 1960sPope Orders Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse by Teachers at London School
Claims of decades-long abuse at Ealing Abbey and neighbouring St Benedict's independent school
The Vatican has ordered an inquiry into claims of decades of sexual abuse at a London abbey and school.
A number of monks and teachers at Ealing Abbey and neighbouring St Benedict's independent school in west London have been linked to alleged abuse from as far back as the 1960s right up until 2009.
The apostolic visitation, as it is called, is the first inquiry of its kind in Britain and could be the first step towards disclosure of other sexual abuse by clerics that have been covered up.
Such an unprecedented move may also be interpreted as a high-level rebuke for the Catholic hierarchy in England, who regularly insist that it has very strong child protection policies.
The full story can be read at the Mail Online.
The headmaster, who was in Rome, has gone AWOL. So it is a matter for INTERPOL now.... nothing more or less shocking than the American examples of this problem which are more cronic in occurrence on account of the size of the USA.
