{"id":45496,"date":"2014-08-06T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/independent_church_of_england_embroiled_in_another_alleged_child_abuse_scan\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:00:23","slug":"independent_church_of_england_embroiled_in_another_alleged_child_abuse_scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45496","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Church of England embroiled in another alleged child abuse scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England faces fresh scrutiny over its handling of historic child abuse after the outgoing Bishop of Gloucester was placed at the centre of a police inquiry over allegations of indecent assault on a child more than 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt Rev Michael Perham, 66, suddenly quit after nearly a decade as bishop on Friday citing \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d\u009d but it can be revealed that a police inquiry was launched centred on the parish in south London where the senior cleric started his career in the Church as an assistant curate in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The force confirmed today that officers from its sexual offences, exploitation and child abuse command are investigating \u201callegations of indecent assault on a child said to have occurred between 1980 and 1981\u201d\u009d. Nobody has been arrested during the course of the continuing inquiry, the force said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/church-of-england-embroiled-in-another-alleged-child-abuse-scandal-9650278.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England faces fresh scrutiny over its handling of historic child abuse after the outgoing Bishop of Gloucester was placed at the centre of a police inquiry over allegations of indecent assault on a child more than 30<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45496\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,635,199,168,114,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45496","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=45496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}