Lord McApline, the former Conservative politician wrongly accused on Twitter of sexual abuse in North Wales on the BBC Newsnight programme, settled with the BBC and was awarded GBP 185,000 Sterling or just under $293,500 plus legal costs. His legal team noted that it would be licence fee payers’ money funding the settlement and as such,…
A former Anglican bishop and retired priest were separately arrested on Tuesday 13th November as police investigated child abuse. The BBC has the story here and if the video is unavailable, click the story in the crawl below the text here to read further details.
Historical allegations of indecent assault against boys in care were renewed on Tuesday 13th November against a Member of Parliament who was in the forerunner to the modern Liberal Democrat party in England. The BBC has the story here.
Also last week, the Savile enquiry produced two new arrests, one last Thursday here and another last weekend, here. The latter arrest followed the producer’s appearances on various programmes regarding Savile.
Just before George Entwhistle’s resignation, The Daily Mail rounded up everything to date to last Friday 9th November including the full statement of denial from the wrongly identified ex-politician. That article is here and scroll to the bottom of the page for the full statement and retrospective video to last Friday night.
While our attention has been focused on the big news taking place in the UK, down in Australia, political leaders are making calls to add priests, even in confessional, to the list of required reporters of child abuse. The Church, naturally, disagrees and considers this interference with religious practice, since the confessional has always been…
