Newly crowned King Charles has already been pulled into a very troubling issue about sexual abuse and one of his own personal friendships. King Charles sex abuse payments is something the newly crowned king is highly likely unsettle him.
It concerns the Prince’s Trust, the household name youth charity he launched.
The Trust said it was pay out £2,000 to each survivor of child sex abuse.
King Charles sex abuse payments
The settlement has been offered to hundreds of British children who were removed from poor working-class families or care homes by the UK government in the last century and sent to “farm schools” in Australia and Canada for “opportunity and education” and then suffered sexual abuse.
The Prince’s Trust is legally liable for the survivors’ claims because it took over Fairbridge, a UK-focused charity whose previous iteration ran the farm schools, in 2012.
In a letter to Charles seen by the Guardian, written by David Hill board member of The Old Fairbridgians Association, a group that represents Fairbridge survivors.
He writes: “This means that the body which bears the initial responsibility for the sexual, physical and emotional abuse of hundreds of Fairbridge farm children, some as young as five years of age, intends to pay each survivors an amount of up to approximately AUD$3,820 (£2,400) or, in many cases, less than that.”
It continues: “I cannot begin to tell you how offensive, hurtful and distressing this is to all Old Fairbridgians, all of whom are now elderly and nearly all of whom have borne the trauma and scarring from their experiences throughout the whole of their lives. Many of them have never been able to live anything approaching normal lives as a result of their experiences at Fairbridge institutions.”
Charles’ friendship
Of course, Charles has nothing to do with the heinous crimes that occurred, at these farm schools, apart from now being in charge of the compensation scheme.
However, it has recalled a past friendship of Charles, which is very troubling.
The King was criticised for supporting a sex offender, the former Church of England bishop Peter Ball.
The former bishop was investigated by police in the early 1990s, which resulted in a police caution.
Then in 2015, he was convicted of sexual offences against 17 teenagers and young men and jailed for 32 months. He was released in February 2017 after serving half his sentence.
Prince Charles was among the many influential people in the UK that Ball formed friendships with, including Margaret Thatcher, senior judges, and headmasters at private schools, according to The Guardian.
Prince Charles told Ball in a letter in February 1995, two years after the bishop had accepted the police caution, which was read to an inquiry: “I wish I could do more. I feel so desperately strongly about the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you and the way you have been treated.”
Charles even bought Ball a house to live in, using the Duchy of Cornwall to purchase the property and then renting it out to Ball and his twin brother from 1995 to 2011.
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