Australian and British child sex victims have finally been vindicated after years of cover-up by the Anglican Church, with an Âofficial admission that one of its most senior clergymen was a pedophile who had been “allowed’’ to abuse children.
Archbishop of York John Sentamu has written to victims of the late Robert Waddington ”” a Âformer Queensland headmaster who later ran hundreds of Anglican schools in Britain ”” saying he was “deeply ashamed’’ the church had not listened and acted on complaints of child sex abuse.
The extraordinary admission follows a year-long inquiry into Waddington, the former dean of Manchester who died in 2007, and the mishandling of abuse allegations in 1999, 2003 and 2005 against him from former choirboys and students in England and Australia.