{"id":108910,"date":"2022-01-19T17:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108910"},"modified":"2022-01-19T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T23:29:02","slug":"guardian-winchester-college-society-was-cult-like-finds-report-into-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108910","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Winchester college society was cult-like, finds report into child abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cult-like evangelical Christian society at a leading private school allowed a powerful and charismatic barrister to groom and sadistically abuse boys with impunity, an investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Christian Forum at Winchester college \u201cshowed signs of what would today be described as radicalisation\u201d, said a 197-page review commissioned by the elite school into abuse carried out by John Smyth QC.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s then headteacher, John Thorn, was informed of the abuse in 1982 but did not report it to police. Smyth moved to Zimbabwe, where he abused \u201cas many as 90 boys, possibly resulting in the death of one\u201d, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2022\/jan\/18\/winchester-college-christian-forum-society-report-child-abuse\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To understand these terrible events in their context, see my book Bleeding for Jesus: John Smyth and the cult of Iwerne camps. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X5RGYMRy2C\">https:\/\/t.co\/X5RGYMRy2C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FeVfoSVhBE\">https:\/\/t.co\/FeVfoSVhBE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Graystone (@AndrewGraystone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewGraystone\/status\/1483516343622250501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cult-like evangelical Christian society at a leading private school allowed a powerful and charismatic barrister to groom and sadistically abuse boys with impunity, an investigation has found. Members of the Christian Forum at Winchester college \u201cshowed signs of what<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108910\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,111,168,133,177,112,110,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108913,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108910\/revisions\/108913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}