Archbishop considered resigning over Church abuse report

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that he considered resigning as recently as Thursday morning - over a report revealing that senior members of the Church of England “covered up” abuse perpetrated by one of its members for more than 40 years. It was a 2017 Channel 4 News investigation that first exposed the abuse by John Smyth, described today as the Church’s “most prolific abuser.” Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I've been giving that a lot of thought for actually quite a long time.

00:05There's nothing over the last ten years that has been as horrible as dealing with not just this one,

00:12but innumerable other abuse cases as you will see from the ICSA inquiry and other things.

00:20I've given it a lot of thought, I've taken advice as recently as this morning from senior colleagues

00:27and no, I'm not going to resign for this.

00:31If I'd known before 2013 or had grounds for suspicion, that would be a resigning matter then and now, but I didn't.

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