Church ‘overcompensated’ for conservative stance on homosexuality by treating paedophile bishop lightly – Christian Today March 15, 2018 by Fulcrum Peter Ball, the former bishop of Lewes, escaped with a police caution in 1992 after being accused of abusing a teenage boy but continued to officiate in a number of private schools until 2007. Harry Farley. Christian Today. 14 March 2018 FulcrumShareTweetShare