A new complaint against Barbadian priest David Tudor, who last year was prohibited from ministry for life, has been upheld by a disciplinary tribunal in the United Kingdom, it was announced on Monday.
A statement on the Diocese of Southwark’s website said the tribunal related to the “serious sexual abuse of a 15-year-old” in the 1980s, when he was a priest in Surrey.
The Bishop of Southwark, The Right Reverend Christopher Chessun, said: “The behaviours that have been considered by this tribunal hearing – and others earlier admitted by David Tudor – demonstrate a serious and damaging breach of his pastoral and professional obligations and were wholly incompatible with his status as a priest.”
Safeguarding processes in the 1980s and 1990s were “neither sufficiently robust nor survivor-focused”, he said, and “left open” the possibility that harm would be caused. (TR)
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