{"id":80961,"date":"2019-04-30T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80961"},"modified":"2019-04-30T05:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T09:18:14","slug":"the-lincolnite-former-bishops-of-lincoln-ignored-abuse-claims-investigation-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80961","title":{"rendered":"(The Lincolnite) Former Bishops of Lincoln ignored abuse claims, investigation finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two former Bishops of Lincoln \u201cturned a blind eye\u201d to alleged abuse cases and did not report them to police until decades later, a BBC Panorama investigation&#8230;[revealed yesterday].<\/p>\n<p>A list of 53 Lincoln Diocese clergy and staff was also eventually referred to the police in 2015, eight years after a review into past safeguarding disclosures was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of England Past Cases Review which examined thousands of records in 2008 and 2009, including some child abuse cases, found that some names could have been referred years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The police investigation that followed resulted in the conviction of three people&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelincolnite.co.uk\/2019\/04\/former-bishops-of-lincoln-turned-a-blind-eye-to-abuse-claims-investigation-finds\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lf3c1ZB03Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/lf3c1ZB03Z<\/a> Looks like Lincoln is another Chichester. I&#8217;m sure plenty more will emerge from this &amp; other dioceses.   <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@churchofengland<\/a> has been hiding much &amp; hoping things would lay undisturbed. They are in crisis and still not owning it properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gilo (@seaofcomplicity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seaofcomplicity\/status\/1122795639824355328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2019<\/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>Two former Bishops of Lincoln \u201cturned a blind eye\u201d to alleged abuse cases and did not report them to police until decades later, a BBC Panorama investigation&#8230;[revealed yesterday]. A list of 53 Lincoln Diocese clergy and staff was also eventually<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80961\">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":[101,389,635,199,168,114,89,435,184,177,108,112,110,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-media","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80961","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=80961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80966,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80961\/revisions\/80966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}