The silence of Elizabeth Cairncross

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Re: The silence of Elizabeth Cairncross

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bakunin wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:42 pm
Pe.A wrote: Sun Apr 12, 2020 2:46 am
Ever Bluer wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:04 pm
In another way it would be less so, because Ball was living in the diocese of Bath and Wells and from 2001 until 2010, troublingly, he had permission to officiate as a priest in that diocese.
Exactly. I don't think you can view Cairncross's actions outside of that...
Ball had already gotten in trouble for being a paedo before 2000, but the church still loved and protected him. So anyone sensible who isn't a religious cretin who trusts a church bureaucracy that was corrupt from the very moment it was founded (since CoE only exists so that Henry #8 could get a shag) would have exercised caution. And there certainly would have been rumours floating around (like with Saville) as well as legal information. Now rumours aren't always worth paying attention to, but if there is a rumour about a church man who gets touchy feely around children, it's better to assume it's true than take the risk.


But since CH senior management was exclusively composed of people who valued "reputation" and hobnobbing with medieval relics over the safety of children, they were fine with sending them to someone who was already known to be a molester but still retained his high status and hadn't yet fallen into disgrace.
The power of hindsight...

As I said in a subsequent post, better questions should be asked how he was able to get away with the police only giving him a caution
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