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The retired judge appointed this week to head an inquiry into VIP child abuse kept allegations about a bishop out of a report into a paedophile scandal, it was claimed last night.
Baroness Butler-Sloss is said to have told a victim of alleged abuse she did not want the claims to be in the public domain as she ‘cared about the Church’.
The former choir boy claims she said: ‘The Press would love a bishop.’
Baroness Butler-Sloss, right, is said to have told a victim of alleged abuse she did not want the claims to be in the public domain. Labour MP Simon Danczuk, left, helped expose claims paedophiles were operating in Westminster in past decades
Labour MP Simon Danczuk, who has helped expose claims paedophiles were operating in Westminster in past decades, renewed his call for her to step down as chairman of the new inquiry.
Her appointment has already come under fire as she is the brother-in-law of Sir Michael Havers, a former Attorney General in the 1980s – when the abuse is alleged to have taken place.
Her comments were reportedly made in 2011 during a meeting at the House of Lords with Phil Johnson, who suffered assaults by a number of clergymen when he was a choirboy in the Church of England Diocese of Chichester.
I dunno folks but this woman looks like Jimmy Saville dressed as a woman? Are we sure this guy actually died?