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A survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of a priest says she is outraged that her abuser was praised by Stephen Cottrell, now Archbishop of York, for parish ministry. Kate (not her real name) says she was sexually abused as a child and that during a service in 2018, Cottrell referred to David Tudor as a “Rolls Royce priest”, despite previous knowledge of Tudor’s abuse allegations and payment to an alleged abuse victim. Tudor has been banned for life from the Church of England following his admission of historical sex abuse allegations relating to two girls.
Kate contacted the BBC after finding out about an investigation into the same disgraced priest who she says abused her. She wants Cottrell to be held accountable for his “terrible decisions” and for Tudor to face sanction. She was a pupil at the school where Tudor was chaplain in the 1980s and says she was abused around 10 times, including sexual oral contact.
Cottrell acknowledges that he knew of serious concerns about Tudor when he became Bishop of Chelmsford in 2010 and faced an awful situation that he “lived with every day”. He suspended Tudor as soon as he was legally able to. Last year, Tudor was an honorary canon of Chelmsford Cathedral and an area dean and was twice reappointed to a senior role.
Tudor went on trial in 1988 for indecently assaulting Kate from the age of 15. The priest was acquitted following a character witness from a bishop and served six months for the same offence in 1989. The convictions were later quashed on technical grounds because of a jury misdirection and he was internally banned by an Church tribunal. Kate was not informed or invited to give her own account of events
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