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Rideout Victim Speaks Out
3m05s - Originally aired May 21st 2013
A woman from Kent who was abused as a child by Canon Gordon Rideout has said she wants him to be stripped of his title and his pension.
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Abuser Canon Rideout Jailed for 10 Years
8m59s - Originally aired May 20th 2013
Canon Gordon Rideout, a serial paedophile priest who abused both girls and boys throughout the 1960s and 70s has been jailed for ten years after being found guilty of thirty-six separate sex offences.
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Bishop Benn CDM Complaints Dismissed
4m07s - Originally aired May 14th 2013
Official complaints made by the Diocese of Chichester's Safeguarding Advisor against former Bishop of Lewes Wallace Benn have been dismissed, despite him not informing Police after paedophile priest Robert Coles informed him he was an abuser. Some were dismissed on technicalities.
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Denford and Mytton Sentenced
2m39s - Originally aired May 9th 2013
BBC report into the jailing of Father Keith Wilkie Denford for indecent assault against two boys in the late 1980s and 1990s. Church organist Michael/Mark Mytton was given a suspended nine-month jail term for indecently assaulting a third boy.
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Visitation Final Report Published
2m36s - Originally aired May 3rd 2013
After their Interim Report last August, Bishop John Gladwin and Chancellor Rupert Bursell QC publish their Final Visitation Report, warning there may still be abusers who have gone undetected.
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Deception and CoverUp Acknowledged
6m30s - Originally aired April 23rd 2013
In a letter to a victim of clergy abuse, Bishop of Chichester Martin Warner acknowledges that there has been both deception and cover-up within the Diocese of Chichester. He also writes that there has been "ineptitude and irresponsible lack of professionalism".
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Rideout Trial Begins for 37 Sex Attacks
2m0s - Originally aired April 9th 2013
Retired Anglican priest Gordon Rideout is accused of 37 sex attacks against children Lewes Crown Court has heard. Thirty two of the charges relate to his time as an assistant curate in Crawley, when he would visit a West Sussex children's home.
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Denford and Mytton Guilty
3m24s - Originally aired April 5th 2013
BBC report into the guilty verdicts of former Church of England and Diocese of Chichester priest Keith Wilkie Denford and organist Michaell/Mark Mytton who were found guilty of sexual offences against boys. Mytton was shown to have had a prior conviction for child sexual abuse.
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Archbishop Welby Speaks on Abuse Crisis
3m53s - Originally aired March 19th 2013
Incoming Archbishop Justin Welby speaks publicly of the suffering of abuse victims after decades of abuse at the hands of priests in the Diocese of Chichester.
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Sussex Priest Denford Trial Begins
1m28s - Originally aired March 13th 2013
A BBC report into the commencement of the trial of Sussex priest Father Keith Wilkie Denford and Organist Michael Mytton for the sexual abuse of young boys in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Robert Coles Held Illegal Services
2m38s - Originally aired March 12th 2013
The Diocese of Chichester's confirs that retired Church of England Priest Robert Coles, jailed for abusing three boys, held over one hundred services illegally after admitting his guilt to Diocesan authorities and being investigated by Police for child abuse in 1997.
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Wallace Benn Responds After Conviction
2m22s - Originally aired February 15th 2013
Former Bishop of Lewes, Wallace Benn issues a statement after the conviction of Robert Coles, a priest he knew to have abused boys in his care. In it he admits to never contacting the Police, but details how he informed the safeguarding advisor and the then Archbishop.
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Archbishop Appalled By Church Failings
4m09s - Originally aired February 15th 2013
The recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, Rev Justin Welby apologises for 'betrayals and failings' in the Church's handling of child abuse allegations after it emerged that senior clergy failed to notify Police of a known paedophile priest in the Diocese of Chichester.
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Retired Priest Robert Coles Pleads Guilty
0m26s - Originally aired December 14th 2012
71 year old retired priest Robert Coles of Upperton Road in Eastbourne appeared at Chichester Crown Court today charged with sexual offences against boys during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Seven More Victims of Bishop Peter Ball and Three More of Vickery House
1m50s - Originally aired November 15th 2012
BBC News report into the numerous victims who have come forward since Tuesday's arrest of Bishop Peter Ball and priest Vickery House.
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Breaking News Report Into Further Victims
1m58s - Originally aired November 15th 2012
Breaking news report on the BBC highlighting a further ten more victims of Peter Ball and Vickery House who have come forward in the 48 hours since their arrests.
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Bishop Peter Ball Arrested on Eight Counts of Sexual Abuse
3m03s - Originally aired November 13th 2012
Former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester and close personal friend of Prince Charles The Right Reverend Peter Ball has been arrested on suspicion of abusing eight boys and men in the 1980s and 1990s, with one victim as young as 12.
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Two Church of England Clergy Arrested
1m58s - Originally aired November 13th 2012
Bishop Peter Ball, 80, a former bishop of Lewes and Gloucester and retired Church of England priest Vickery House, 67, were arrested on suspicion of sexual offences involving teenage boys and young men in East Sussex throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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Former Children's Minister Wants More Comprehensive Abuse Inquiry
4m46s - Originally aired November 7th 2012
Former Children's Minister and current Member of Parliament for East Worthing, Tim Loughton has urged the government to include the Diocese of Chichester and the wider Anglican Church in its recently established inquiry into child sex abuse.
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Canon Gordon Rideout to Stand Trial
0m28s - Originally aired October 19th 2012
Retired Church of England Canon Gordon Rideout is to stand trial for 38 sexual offences against 18 children and young teenagers. Attempts were made by Bishop Wallace Benn to obstruct the Criminal Records Bureau checks into the Canon, who until earlier this year was still a Governor at Bishop Bell School.
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Bishop Wallace Benn Steps Down
3m47s - Originally aired October 18th 2012
An embattled Wallace Benn steps down as Bishop of Lewes while still under a Clergy Discipline Measure concerning his involvement in coverups of sexual abuse within the Diocese of Chichester.
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Children Unsafe in Chichester Diocese
5m29s - Originally aired September 11th 2012
Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, letters to and from the Archbishop of Canterbury reveal that Director of Children's Services for East Sussex County Council believes children are unsafe when in the care of the Diocese of Chichester.
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Local Government Loses Confidence in the Diocese of Chichester
3m27s - Originally aired September 2nd 2012
Director of Children's Services for East Sussex has lost confidence in the Diocese of Chichester's ability to police itself. Meanwhile, the new Bishop of Lewes acknowledges he is ashamed over the abuse, but asserts, quite wrongly, that it's all in the past.
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Diocese of Chichester's 'Profoundly Negative Culture' Surrounding Abuse
7m17s - Originally aired August 30th 2012
Extended report into the condemnation by the Archbishop of Canterbury of the Diocese of Chichester's decades of abuse failings. He is to immediately take control of clergy hiring and vetting, along with all abuse claims in the Diocese.
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Archbishop Condemns 'Appauling' Diocese of Chichester
2m59s - Originally aired August 30th 2012
Describing the "profoundly negative culture" within the Diocese of Chichester which led to two decades of child protection 'failures', the Archbishop of Canterbury publishes 'fresh and disturbing' aspects of the way abuse continues to be handled.
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Bishop Wallace Benn Delayed Criminal Checks
4m37s - Originally aired August 14th 2012
A BBC report into Bishop of Lewes Wallace Benn's attempts to prevent Canon Gordon Rideout's Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check - which details allegations of child sex abuse - being dealt with properly.
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Over 100 Diocese of Chichester Priests Suspended
3m37s - Originally aired July 3rd 2012
The Diocese of Chichester suspend more than one hundred Anglican priests in Sussex due to not ever having had, or not having had Criminal Records Bureau checks completed within the last five years.
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Canon Gordon Rideout Charged
2m26s - Originally aired June 27th 2012
A BBC report covering the formal police charging of Canon Gordon Rideout for thirty eight counts of sexual offences against eighteen children.
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Abuse Bishop Peter Ball investigated
5m00s - Originally aired May 28th 2012
A BBC report detailing the investigation into friend of paedophile priest Roy Cotton and former Sussex Bishop Peter Ball who resigned in disgrace in 1993 after admitting and accepting a Police caution for acts of gross indecency against a seventeen year old trainee monk.
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Abuse Victim Guilty of Murder
4m04s - Originally aired May 11th 2012
Eventually acquitted for the murder of his abuser Ronald Glazebrook, Christopher Hunnisett went on to target othershe believed were paedophiles. Important to be viewed in context with a prior broadcast from 2010:
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Sussex Priest and Organist Charged
2m01s - Originally aired May 8th 2012
Semi-retired Father Keith Wilkie Denford and former church organist Michael Mytton are formally charged with offences related to the sexual assault of two boys in the 1980s, following their arrest last November. |
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Warner Appointed John Hind's Replacement
3m25s - Originally aired May 3rd 2012
After years of significant safeguarding failings were exposed, Martin Warner is announced as a replacement to the former Bishop of Chichester John Hind who retired early during continuing investigations into the actions and inactions of the hierarchy in the Diocese of Chichester. |
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Sex Abuse Alliance Demands Public Inquiry
3m22s - Originally aired April 20th 2012
Anglican and Catholic churches have lost the right to police themselves, say victims:
"The church cannot be trusted to investigate itself. We need honesty, transparency and clear external oversight. And we will get that only with a fully independent public inquiry." |
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Canon Rearrested Over New Abuse Allegations
33s - Originally aired April 17th 2012
Retired Anglican priest Gordon Rideout who was bailed on suspicion of child sex abuse in March has been rearrested over four fresh allegations... |
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Sex Abuse Probe Priest Remained School Governor
3m38s - Originally aired March 15th 2012
Canon Gordon Rideout remained a governor of Bishop Bell Church of England School for more than a year after prior arrests and claims of child sex abuse against him came to light... |
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Canon and Priest Arrested by Sussex Police in Abuse Cases
5m37s - Originally aired March 6th 2012
Sussex Police arrest Canon Gordon Rideout and Father Robert Coles simultaneously in an operation stemming from material uncovered and passed to the Police during the Butler-Sloss inquiry into significant safeguarding failings by the Diocese of Chichester... |
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Church of England Unreserved National Abuse Apology
2m10s - Originally aired February 29th 2012
The Church of England issues an unreserved National apology for mistakes which led to the 1966 ordination of paedophile priest Roy Cotton despite four former Bishops and a former Archbishop of Canterbury knowing he had a conviction for abusing a choirboy. |
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Diocese of Chichester Priest arrested
2m32s - Originally aired January24th 2012
BBC report into the November 2011 arrest of a 76 year old Church of England priest and a 68 year old church organist on suspicion of sexually abusing two young boys at various locations in Sussex during 1988. |
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Call for Public Inquiry published in The Times
2m11s - Originally aired January 17th 2012
BBC report into a letter from a group of solicitors calling for a public inquiry into abuse within the church, published in The Times on January 17th 2012. Tracey Emmott, representing seven victims of Diocese of Chichester priest Roy Cotton explains the need for such an inquiry. |
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Archbishop of Canterbury Launches Chichester Child Protection Inquiry
3m05s - Originally aired December 22nd 2011
BBC coverage of the Archbishop of Canterbury's launching of another inquiry into the Diocese of Chichester's Child Protection practices. Conspicuously absent from the remit of this internal inquiry is any mention of past victims or historic cases. This will be the fourth inquiry into the Diocese of Chichester... |
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Official Misconduct Complaint against Bishop Wallace Benn
2m15s - Originally aired November 10th 2011
The safeguarding advisory group to the Diocese of Chichester has made an official complaint to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace in the form an official clergy discipline measure (CDM), regarding his handling of paedophile priests and the misinformation he provided the inquiries that followed. |
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Bishop Wallace Benn Serious Misconduct Allegations
3m52s - Originally aired November 3rd 2011
The safeguarding advisory group to the Diocese of Chichester has written to Lambeth Palace stating its intention of making a complaint in the form an official clergy discipline measure (CDM), regarding his handling of paedophile priests and the misinformation he provided the inquiries that followed. |
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Diocese of Chichester Denies Abuse Cover-Up
4m20s - Originally aired July 19th 2011
BBC report into the newest investigation into the source of misinformation that found its way into the Butler-Sloss Inquiry commissioned to investigate the findings of the Meekings Report originally established to investigate the failings of the Diocese of Chichester surrounding cases of paedophile Priests in Sussex. |
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Colin Campbell Interviews Archdeacon Philip Jones
2m00s - Originally aired July 19th 2011
Lewes and Hastings Archdeacon, the Venerable Philip Jones attempts to defend the discredited Butler-Sloss Inquiry, repeatedly insisting there has been no cover-up, in an interview with the BBC's Colin Campbell. |
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Diocese of Chichester and Butler-Sloss Abuse Inquiry Inaccuracies
7m58s - Originally aired July 13th 2011
The BBC's Colin Campbell investigates serious errors, inaccuracies and falsehoods in the Butler-Sloss inquiry, including alarmingly incorrect information provided to the Baroness by sitting Bishops. |
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Bishop John Hind Early Retirement Announcement
2m57s - Originally aired July 7th 2011
Following his apology to the victims of sexual abuse for the failings of his Diocese, Bishop John Hind announces his early retirement. |
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Joint Bishops' Abuse Apology
3m20s - Originally aired June 9th 2011
BBC report on the joint apology of Bishop of Chichester John Hind and Bishop of Lewes Wallace Benn for their personal failures in protecting children from convicted child abuser Rev Roy Cotton and paedophile priest Colin Pritchard. |
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1966 Archbishop Allowed Convicted Child Abuser to be Ordained
4m50s - Originally aired May 27th 2011
BBC report detailing the institutional failings of the Diocese of Chichester surrounding the ordination of paedophile priest Roy Cotton, highlighting the fact that the then Archbishop of Canterbury allowed Cotton, a previously convicted child abuser from the 1950s to be ordained in 1966. |
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Institutional Protection Failings of the Diocese of Chichester
11m07s - Originally aired May 26th 2011
BBC report announcing the publishing of both the Butler-Sloss report and the Meekings report detailing the institutional failings of the Diocese of Chichester surrounding paedophile priests Roy Cotton and Colin Pritchard, including the fact that the then Archbishop of Canterbury allowed Cotton... |
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Victims Criticise Church of England Safeguarding Failings
6m21 - Originally aired May 11th 2011
BBC report in which two Eastbourne brothers waive their right to anonymity to criticise the Church of England's failure to protect them. Includes comments from Anne Lawrence from MACSAS - the Ministry and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors group. UK Helpline: 08088 01 03 04 |
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Bishop Apologises to Abuse Victims
8m01s - Originally aired March 1st 2011
BBC report covering the rare, if not unprecedented apology by the Bishop of Chichester to two victims of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Roy Cotton. |
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Butler-Sloss Inquiry into Diocese of Chichester Safeguarding Failings
4m45s - Originally aired December 14th 2010
BBC report covering the launching of the 'Butler-Sloss' Inquiry into the safeguarding failings by the Diocese of Chichester, and to assess the value of the findings of the previously conducted confidential 'Meekings Report'. |
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Church of England Paedophile Priest Victims
4m28s - Originally aired October 29th 2010
BBC News report into victims of Roy Cotton. |
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Church of England Safeguarding Failings
7m40s - Originally aired October 21st 2010
BBC News report into continued safeguarding failings by the Church of England. |
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Sussex Paedophile Priest Ronald Glazebrook
4m41s - Originally aired September 28th 2010
BBC News report into Ronald Glazebrook. |
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Church of England Paedophile Priest Convicted
1m50s - Originally aired July 29th 2008
BBC report into the conviction of paedophile vicar Collin Pritchard. Video contains part of an interview with one of his victims. |
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Paedophile Vicar Collin Pritchard Convicted
2m57s - Originally aired July 29th 2008
BBC report into the conviction of paedophile vicar Collin Pritchard. Video contains part of an interview with one of his victims. |
