CoE finds one million pages of documents about child sex abuse

Chichester cathedral

More than a million pages of documents on child sex abuse have been found at just three of the Church of England’s 42 dioceses.

Exaro has learnt that the overarching inquiry into child sex abuse (CSA) demanded last month that the CoE hand over all relevant documents in its possession within 14 days, according to well-placed sources.

It wanted the documents in time for a preliminary hearing on Wednesday on the inquiry's envestigation into the Anglican churches.

But the CoE protested that the demand was unreasonable. One source told Exaro that the CoE and inquiry would be "overwhelmed" by the huge amount of material, and that neither "could cope anyway".  (more)

CoE finds one million pages of documents about child sex abuse

More than a million pages of documents on child sex abuse found at just 3 of the Church of England’s 42 dioceses. https://t.co/QVS4vhVBCW

— ExaroNews (@ExaroNews) March 14, 2016

Clash: #CSAinquiry and Church of England in stand-off over disclosure of documents and scope of investigation. https://t.co/QVS4vhVBCW

— ExaroNews (@ExaroNews) March 14, 2016

.@ExaroNews @MarkWatts_1 ..so many Q's & concerns about these churches endemic epidemic child sexual abuse crimes pic.twitter.com/4vAyhmyGFV

— Shy Keenan (@ShyKeenan) March 15, 2016