While no submissions or reports of abuse were found to have occurred while Smyth was in South Africa, the panel of inquiry has found that the incident should be an alarm to safeguard for the future.
Smyth’s sexual abuses should be an alarm for the Anglican Church of SA, needs to be proactive in future
The Review found that Smyth, between the late 1970s and early 1980s, had in secret perpetrated vicious physical assaults of a sadistic nature by caning boys and young men until they bled. The ACSA panel comprised Justice lan Farlam, a former judge of South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal and the ACSA Provincial Chancellor, and Dr Mamphela Ramphele, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town and a former Managing Director of the World Bank.
“It appears that the Smyths became residents of a Cape Town suburb, Bergyliet, in 2005 and became parishioners at the local ACSA church, St Martin's. The diocesan records reflect that Smyth was not licensed for any ACSA ministry. Nor is there any ACSA record of any complaints or allegations pertaining to Mr Smyth,” the report reads.
It noted that"a fair number of members of people from Church-on-Main, well as other churches, have had moments of counselling and group discipleship with John”.
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