{"id":53232,"date":"2016-02-04T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_argus_an_interview_with_bishop_george_bells_victim_why_i_had_to_speak_o\/"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:15:43","slug":"the_argus_an_interview_with_bishop_george_bells_victim_why_i_had_to_speak_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53232","title":{"rendered":"(The Argus) An interview with Bishop George Bell&#39;s victim: why I had to speak out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Wednesday 3 February 2016]&#8230;for the first time, the victim of George Bell has spoken about the sexual abuse she suffered as a five-year-old child at the hands of the wartime Bishop of Chichester.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to The Argus, she described how he repeatedly molested her over a period of four years while telling her that God loved her.<\/p>\n<p>Her testimony brings new clarity to a story which has changed the world\u2019s perception of one of the most revered Anglicans of the 20th century since news of a church payout was announced last October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/14249226.Bishop_George_Bell_s_victim__Why_I_had_to_speak_out_about_the_abuse_I_suffered\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Wednesday 3 February 2016]&#8230;for the first time, the victim of George Bell has spoken about the sexual abuse she suffered as a five-year-old child at the hands of the wartime Bishop of Chichester. Speaking exclusively to The Argus, she described<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53232\">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":[36,48,39,74,101,186,389,635,168,114,435,184,177,108,112,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-children","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","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\/53232","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=53232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}