Stephen Wood, the archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, is facingsexual harassment accusations from a second woman, deepening a crisisthat has engulfed his tenure atop the conservative denomination.
The new allegation, by a woman identified as “Jane Doe 1,” appears in a revised ecclesiastical complaint — known as a “presentment” — submitted to the denomination on Thursday.The statement does not identify the location or time period of the alleged incidents.
“I have a complaint against Archbishop Steve Wood of sexual misconduct, in the form of sexual harassment, to include pressuring me to be in situations I was uncomfortable with, even after I expressed my discomfort, pressuring me to be in a private space with him, one-on-one, to drink alcohol with him, despite me saying it was inappropriate and that I was uncomfortable,” the woman wrote in the presentment. “I do not wish to go into further detail now for fear of being identified….”
“It seems that crisis after crisis is threatening to destroy the Anglican Church in North America. Many of us are nauseated by it all,” wrote Bishop Jacob Worley, who leads a diocese of Anglican churches in the Pacific Northwest. “We are at the very least concerned, if not frightened at what the future may hold. Some of us are concerned with being affiliated with the ACNA.”
Exclusive, Part II. Just after he became the Anglican Church in North America's archbishop, Steve Wood was "obsessive" about a possible presentment that could lead to a trial & his defrocking, accdg to Andrew Gross, the longtime former comms director. https://t.co/G5NVWhjjTA
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