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Dr Martin Warner, the Bishop of Chichester has admitted to a former choirboy, abused as a child by an Anglican priest, Roy Cotton, in East Sussex, that there was a cover-up. In a private letter of apology to Gary Johnson, Dr Warner wrote "There has been deception and cover-up here".

He told the BBC: "By cover-up, I mean that a person in authority, who has information, deliberately, knowingly ignores the information, does not pass it on; allows somebody who is a perpetrator of abuse to move from one post to another, allows somebody who is a perpetrator of abuse not to be challenged, brought to account - and thereby colludes actually with the abuse."

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Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Britain's most senior catholic cleric has admitted his sexual conduct has at times "fallen beneath the standards expected of me".
The former cardinal resigned last Monday after three priests and a former priest had made allegations of improper behaviour against him dating back to the 80s.

In a statement the cardinal apologised to the Church and the people of Scotland. His statement issued through the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland read:

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Tracey Emmott on BBC News - Roman Catholic church refused Supreme Court sex abuse appeal.

A woman who claims she was sexually abused by a priest is set to sue the Roman Catholic Church after it was refused a last chance to reverse a ruling holding it responsible.

Roman Catholic church refused Supreme Court sex abuse appeal

 

A woman who claims she was sexually abused by a priest is set to sue the Roman Catholic Church after it was refused a last chance to reverse a ruling holding it responsible.

In a binding ruling for all future cases in the UK and which may well influence those across the world, the Catholic church has failed to reverse a legal judgment which holds it responsible for sex abuse committed by its priests.

Campaigners have warned that keeping children safe online is one of the biggest child protection issues of the modern world.
According to the NSPCC, young people are now experiencing new forms of abuse "on a scale never before seen".
The charity states that children should be given lessons in how to use the internet safely from as young as five or six. They are concerned there are rising numbers of youngsters being exposed to online pornography, cyberbullying and being forced into sending indecent images to others.
According to the NSPCC, last year there was an increase in calls about online pornography, with some from children as young as 11. Their research had shown many teenagers see "sexting" and hard-core pornography as the norm, with some describing it as "mundane", and some had been blackmailed or coerced into sending indecent images of themselves to strangers or other youngsters.
Claire Lilley, from the NSPCC, said: "Young people tell us they are experiencing all sorts of new forms of abuse on a scale never before seen. It's now clear that we are facing an e-safety time bomb, with this being one of the biggest child protection issues of our time.

An attempted legal appeal by the Catholic church to the Supreme Court over sex abuse by one of its priests could decide whether victims of Jimmy Savile can make claims against hospitals and the BBC.