Sex-abuse priest was TWICE reappointed to senior CofE role before being banned from ministry for life
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A church of England priest at the centre of a sexual abuse case was twice reappointed to a senior role, it emerged yesterday. David Tudor, who was banned from ministry for life this year, was reinstated during the Archbishop of York's time as Bishop of Chelmsford and remained in post after Stephen Cottrell was first told of concerns about him, the BBC reported.
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Mr Cottrell, the Church of England's second-most senior bishop, yesterday said things 'could have been handled differently' as he faced calls to resign over his handling of the case. Tudor was kicked out this year after admitting what the Church of England described as serious sexual abuse involving two girls aged 15 and 16.
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But decades earlier, in 1988, he was suspended for five years after admitting having sex with a 16-year-old girl he met when she was a pupil at a school where he was chaplain. David Tudor (pictured), who was banned from ministry for life this year, was reinstated during the Archbishop of York's time as Bishop of Chelmsford.
Stephen Cottrell (pictured) the Church of England's second-most senior bishop, yesterday said things 'could have been handled differently' as he faced calls to resign. The Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell is facing calls to resign over his handling of an historical abuse case.
But he was able to return to working in the church in 1994. The archbishop said he 'acted immediately' within the authority he had regarding the case, and that it was 'not possible' to remove the priest from office until fresh complaints were made against him in 2019.
