{"id":133190,"date":"2024-12-04T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133190"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:30:36","slug":"telegraph-first-serving-bishop-steps-back-over-john-smyth-child-abusetelegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133190","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) First serving bishop steps back over John Smyth child abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s former chaplain has become the first serving bishop to step back from her role after a report into the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/11\/11\/justin-welby-wrongly-says-not-know-extent-child-abuse\/\">Church\u2019s handling of a child sexual abuse scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bishop for Episcopal Ministry in the Anglican Communion, the Right Rev Dr Jo Bailey Wells, was asked to step away from ministry after the publication of a review into the Anglican clergy\u2019s failure to stop the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/11\/11\/the-telegraph-john-smyth-abuse-justin-welby-involvement\/\">&nbsp;serial child abuser John Smyth.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the Diocese of London confirmed that Bishop Dr Bailey Wells had been asked to temporarily pause her ministry pending a \u201csafeguarding risk assessment\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/12\/03\/first-serving-bishop-steps-back-report-john-smyth-scandal\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This article says it is \u201cpending a safeguarding risk assessment\u201d. But no one suggests JBW is a current risk. Victims call for those who knew in 2013 to be held to account for HISTORIC failings. This is what the NST seems incapable of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JanetEastham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JanetEastham<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dP3tC8rwjb\">https:\/\/t.co\/dP3tC8rwjb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Graham (@Graham1munro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Graham1munro\/status\/1864026484274348115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s former chaplain has become the first serving bishop to step back from her role after a report into the&nbsp;Church\u2019s handling of a child sexual abuse scandal. The Bishop for Episcopal Ministry in the Anglican Communion, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133190\">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":[389,635,168,112,110,124,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-violence","category-youth-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133190","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=133190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133195,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133190\/revisions\/133195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}