Archbishop Welby took retirement a few months ago when it was revealed that during his years as head of the Church of England/Anglicans he had turned a blind eye to all the reports of pedophilia and sexual deviancy among the ministers and staff of the CofE!
He could have reported one pervert back in 2013 but chose not to to avoid exposing the problems in the CofE. 'John Smyth – thought to have been the most persistent serial abuser to be associated with the church – might have been brought to justice had Welby formally reported him to police in 2013.'
John Smyth was a SADIST - an appalling abuser of children and young men. His abuse was prolific, brutaland horrific. His victims were subjected to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritualattacks.
Smyth's activities were identified in the 1980s."The scale and severity of the practice was horrific. Five of the 13 I have seen were init only for a short time. Between them they had 12 beatings and about 650 strokes. Theother 8 received about 14,000 strokes: 2 of them having some 8,000 strokes over thethree years. The others were involved for one year of 18 months. 8 spoke of bleedingon most occasions (“I could feel the blood splattering on my legs” – “I was bleeding for3½ weeks” “I fainted sometime after a severe beating”). I have seen bruised andscored buttocks, some two-and-a-half months after the beating. "I know that my bottom bled from the beatings…. I would need to wear nappies forthree or four days afterwards. Then I would have a scab that needed to heal and thatmight take another week or so.I don’t think it was long before I was having to wear nappies. It might have been thefourth time. Something like that…Smyth supplied the nappies, but I don’t rememberwhere he got them from.""The number of strokes increased each time up to well over a hundred….The total wasbetween 800 and 1000 over ten visits.""I was struck 30-40 times with a cane across my bottom, sometimes the cane missedmy bottom and connecting with my thigh. The pain was so intense, my bottom wasbleeding and despite it being red raw he would continue striking me. Each hit was veryviolent, and it was extraordinarily painful. Smyth was hitting me as hard as he could –he was sweating and exerting a lot of energy with each stroke.During my time at Smyth’s house I recall conversations in which he stated that he hadbroken canes during the beatings. I thought until that moment that he was a nice guy, but thatfirst strike was so brutal, there was no holding back at all, there was no mercy in it,there was no gentleness in it, it was absolutely ferocious and the sting and then theburning sensation.It wasn’t like anything that I had ever experienced before in my life, so I remember itvery well as it literally knocked the breath out of me. I remember there was a pauseafter 10 lashes, but he didn’t ask if I was alright because I would’ve said no. He thenbeat me for a further 10 strokes and during those strokes I remember for the very firsttime that my skin was probably breaking. There were 10 further strokes and at thatpoint there was a sensation of hot blood coming to the surface of my skin and I thinkprobably breaking through my skin.John was a very strong man and using a fairly substantial stick."
Church officers and others were made aware of the abuse in the form of a key report in 1982prepared by the Reverend Mark Ruston. The recipients of that report participated in an activecover-up to prevent that report and its findings – including that crimes had been committed -coming to light. There is no excuse or good explanation that justifies that decision.
In 1986, beatings in state schools were outlawed with the Education Act 1986. The ban was extended to fee-paying schools inMarch 1998..
An argumentwhich has been offered in order to partially explain John Smyth’s abuses is that they were examples of over-enthusiastic corporal punishment - aka SADISM?
The conclusion of the Review is that hecommitted criminal acts of gross abuse.1.7 Further abuse could and should have been prevented.
In the period between 1984 and 2001, at which time John Smyth relocated to Zimbabwe andsubsequently South Africa, Church officers knew of the abuse and failed to take the stepsnecessary to prevent further abuse occurring.
Throughout this period – and particularly given theChurch's adoption of formal safeguarding policies from 1995 – the Church had sufficientknowledge of the abuse to have taken those steps.
Following specific developments in 2012, from July 2013, the Church of England knew, at thehighest level, about the abuse that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Smyth probably got away with his sadism for so long because of the British Slander Laws which deter many people from being exposed as slimy defence lawyers can twist everything and losing a case exposes the complainant to pay vast damages to the criminal.
About 4 years ago I went along to a CofE teaching school open evening with two women who wanted to become deacons in CofE church.
I asked about 5 of the staff if they were descended from Adam and Eve or evolved from 'monkeys'. All said monkeys!
CofE church in my town is 1,000 years old with Saxon brickwork visible. Me and friend go there for coffee on Fridays but don't go to any services. Sunday service only gets about 20 older people.
Christianity is dying in UK.
He could have reported one pervert back in 2013 but chose not to to avoid exposing the problems in the CofE. 'John Smyth – thought to have been the most persistent serial abuser to be associated with the church – might have been brought to justice had Welby formally reported him to police in 2013.'
John Smyth was a SADIST - an appalling abuser of children and young men. His abuse was prolific, brutaland horrific. His victims were subjected to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritualattacks.
Smyth's activities were identified in the 1980s."The scale and severity of the practice was horrific. Five of the 13 I have seen were init only for a short time. Between them they had 12 beatings and about 650 strokes. Theother 8 received about 14,000 strokes: 2 of them having some 8,000 strokes over thethree years. The others were involved for one year of 18 months. 8 spoke of bleedingon most occasions (“I could feel the blood splattering on my legs” – “I was bleeding for3½ weeks” “I fainted sometime after a severe beating”). I have seen bruised andscored buttocks, some two-and-a-half months after the beating. "I know that my bottom bled from the beatings…. I would need to wear nappies forthree or four days afterwards. Then I would have a scab that needed to heal and thatmight take another week or so.I don’t think it was long before I was having to wear nappies. It might have been thefourth time. Something like that…Smyth supplied the nappies, but I don’t rememberwhere he got them from.""The number of strokes increased each time up to well over a hundred….The total wasbetween 800 and 1000 over ten visits.""I was struck 30-40 times with a cane across my bottom, sometimes the cane missedmy bottom and connecting with my thigh. The pain was so intense, my bottom wasbleeding and despite it being red raw he would continue striking me. Each hit was veryviolent, and it was extraordinarily painful. Smyth was hitting me as hard as he could –he was sweating and exerting a lot of energy with each stroke.During my time at Smyth’s house I recall conversations in which he stated that he hadbroken canes during the beatings. I thought until that moment that he was a nice guy, but thatfirst strike was so brutal, there was no holding back at all, there was no mercy in it,there was no gentleness in it, it was absolutely ferocious and the sting and then theburning sensation.It wasn’t like anything that I had ever experienced before in my life, so I remember itvery well as it literally knocked the breath out of me. I remember there was a pauseafter 10 lashes, but he didn’t ask if I was alright because I would’ve said no. He thenbeat me for a further 10 strokes and during those strokes I remember for the very firsttime that my skin was probably breaking. There were 10 further strokes and at thatpoint there was a sensation of hot blood coming to the surface of my skin and I thinkprobably breaking through my skin.John was a very strong man and using a fairly substantial stick."
Church officers and others were made aware of the abuse in the form of a key report in 1982prepared by the Reverend Mark Ruston. The recipients of that report participated in an activecover-up to prevent that report and its findings – including that crimes had been committed -coming to light. There is no excuse or good explanation that justifies that decision.
In 1986, beatings in state schools were outlawed with the Education Act 1986. The ban was extended to fee-paying schools inMarch 1998..
An argumentwhich has been offered in order to partially explain John Smyth’s abuses is that they were examples of over-enthusiastic corporal punishment - aka SADISM?
The conclusion of the Review is that hecommitted criminal acts of gross abuse.1.7 Further abuse could and should have been prevented.
In the period between 1984 and 2001, at which time John Smyth relocated to Zimbabwe andsubsequently South Africa, Church officers knew of the abuse and failed to take the stepsnecessary to prevent further abuse occurring.
Throughout this period – and particularly given theChurch's adoption of formal safeguarding policies from 1995 – the Church had sufficientknowledge of the abuse to have taken those steps.
Following specific developments in 2012, from July 2013, the Church of England knew, at thehighest level, about the abuse that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Smyth probably got away with his sadism for so long because of the British Slander Laws which deter many people from being exposed as slimy defence lawyers can twist everything and losing a case exposes the complainant to pay vast damages to the criminal.
About 4 years ago I went along to a CofE teaching school open evening with two women who wanted to become deacons in CofE church.
I asked about 5 of the staff if they were descended from Adam and Eve or evolved from 'monkeys'. All said monkeys!
CofE church in my town is 1,000 years old with Saxon brickwork visible. Me and friend go there for coffee on Fridays but don't go to any services. Sunday service only gets about 20 older people.
Christianity is dying in UK.
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