Former Archishop of York John Sentamu has stepped back from ministry after a review found he failed to act on a disclosure of child sexual abuse
The report said while he was not convicted, the reviewer "for the benefit of doubt, can confirm the survivor was sexually abused by Trevor Devamanikkam".Responding to the the review, published on Thursday, Bishop Joanne Grenfell, safeguarding lead for the House of Bishops, said: "The Church should be ashamed that a vulnerable 16-year-old in its care was let down by the Church and abused by someone in a position of trust.
She said: "The survivor's allegation that he disclosed his abuse to the archbishop of York, and he did not act on this, is substantiated." He added that the safeguarding matter had been in the Diocese of Sheffield "and therefore not for the diocesan safeguarding adviser for York Diocese". Dr Steven Croft, now the Bishop of Oxford, was the bishop of Sheffield at the time of the disclosures.
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