Thursday, February 21, 2013

Welby’s ‘grief’ over abuse case

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/ImageGen.ashx?image=/media/3682815/robert_coles_-_welby.jpg&width=85THE Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised "with deep grief" for the "betrayals and failings" of the Church in the case of a former parish priest sentenced for child-abuse offences.

The offender, Robert Coles , 71, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to 11 sex offences against three young boys, committed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in West Sussex.