Victim Richard Gittins recounts receiving a “beating with a cane on bare bottom” as the Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over the Church of England’s failure to alert authorities to the abuse of boys by John Smyth. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, after the original introduction and the process of grooming, is what's probably the
00:06best way to describe it, is I would go down to his house when I was at Cambridge, which
00:11just has eight weeks terms, I'd go down every three weeks to receive a beating with a cane
00:18on bare bottom. I was getting up towards about 200 strokes by the end,
00:26and that would obviously cause bleeding at the bottom, and we'd just have to wear nappies
00:32to stop the blood soaking through onto our trousers. After three weeks, the wound had
00:37healed and then you could go again. That was a bit crude, but there you go.