
An now the church is paying the price for this kind of abuse, at least for now because in history less people knew and even less people cared. In his resignation statement, Justin Welby said the report "exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth". He added, when he was told in 2013 that Smyth had been reported to police, "I believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow".