Cape Town apologizes for Desmond Tutu’s failure to curb clergy sex abuse

Mar 16, 2018 by

from Anglican Ink:

Author: Diocese of Cape Town press office.

The South African writer Ishtiyaq Shukri has written an open letter in which he responds to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s recent stepping down as an ambassador for Oxfam after a scandal around allegations of sexual misconduct.
In the letter, Mr Shukri said he was the victim of sexual abuse by Anglican priests and accused Archbishop Desmond of never fully addressing what he claimed was “systematic and institutionalised sexual abuse happening in his own organisation”.
In response, Archbishop Tutu’s office issued the following statement:
“Archbishop Emeritus Tutu was mortified to learn this week of the suffering Ishtiyaq Shukri has described enduring at the hands of priests in Kimberley. Members of the clergy who break the law or behave immorally are as accountable for their actions – now, in the past and in the future – as any other member of God’s family. Archbishop Emeritus Tutu has retired from public life. He has the utmost faith in Archbishop Makgoba’s commitment to hold those clergy accused of wrongdoing to account, and support those whose trust in the clergy has been betrayed.”
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba issued this response:
See also: Man accuses the Anglican Church of silencing sexual abuse, by Carl Collinson, Mail and Guardian

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