{"id":51966,"date":"2015-10-07T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_bishop_peter_ball_sex_abuse_victims_sue_church_of_england\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:02:32","slug":"bbc_bishop_peter_ball_sex_abuse_victims_sue_church_of_england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51966","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Bishop Peter Ball sex abuse victims sue Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sex abuse victims of former Sussex bishop Peter Ball are suing the Church of England for hundreds of thousands of pounds.<br \/>\nBall, 83, who admitted offences against 18 teenagers and young men in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, is being sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.<br \/>\nLawyer David Greenwood who represents four victims said legal action had been lodged against the Chichester diocese<br \/>\nThe Church of England has not yet commented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-34451946\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex abuse victims of former Sussex bishop Peter Ball are suing the Church of England for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Ball, 83, who admitted offences against 18 teenagers and young men in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, is being<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51966\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,635,199,168,114,435,184,177,108,112,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","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-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966","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=51966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}