Kincora: UK child abuse inquiry must look at Belfast boys' home, says Amnesty International. By Amanda Ferguson, Adrian Rutherford, PA and agencies – 08 July 2014 Three senior care staff from the notorious children's home in east Belfast were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys, but allegations have persisted that the paedophile ring was linked to the intelligence services.
It is feared that there are many more victims and abusers during the period between 1960 and 1980. One convicted child abuser, William McGrath, was an MI5 agent and alleged two police probes were obstructed by the British establishment. Diana inquest judge to lead paedophile inquiry. The investigation will cover allegations against individuals in positions of power in the state as well as public bodies like the BBC, churches and political parties.
It was announced after David Cameron promised to leave "no stone unturned" in probing allegations of a paedophile ring with links to Whitehall and Westminster in the 1980s. The home secretary, Theresa May, said: "In recent years, we have seen appalling cases of organised and persistent child sex abuse that have exposed serious failings by public bodies and important institutions. "That is why the government has established an independent panel of experts to consider whether these organisations have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse. " Baroness Butler-Sloss hid claims of bishop's sex abuse.
She said she would mention the allegations in a private report to the Archbishop of Cantebury instead, according to The Times.
Mr Johnson, who was abused by a number of clergymen when he was a choirboy in the Church of England Diocese of Chichester and now sits on a National Safeguarding Panel for the Church, kept a detailed record of the meeting. He said he "felt pressured to agree to exclude information about the bishop from the report".
Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP who exposed the extent of Cyril Smith’s child sex offences, said "there is information coming out by the day which suggests she [Lady Butler-Sloss] is unsuitable for the role". The peer previously made crucial errors during an investigation into how the Church of England handled the cases of two ministers in Sussex who had sexually abused boys. A Home Office spokesman said: “The integrity of Baroness Butler-Sloss is beyond reproach and we stand by her appointment unreservedly.” Judge's warning after child abuse mistakes by doctors.
Children are still being taken into care on dubious evidence of sexual abuse 20 years after the Cleveland childcare scandal, a senior high court judge has warned.
Mr Justice Holman questioned whether, two decades later, the lessons of Cleveland had been learned, as he ruled that a 10-year-old girl removed from home for 11 months had never been abused at all and "completely exonerated" her parents. The judge described the case, heard in private, as "every parent's nightmare". His judgment, delivered six weeks ago, has now been published so lessons can be learned by doctors, social workers, lawyers and judges. The girl, named only as A, was taken to hospital by her parents after her mother discovered a small blood stain on her underpants. Small amounts of blood were found several times and A was subjected to eight genital examinations.
Our Establishment is running scared about historic sex abuse. Anyone not agreeable to the predominantly Labour membership of the committee and to the lobbies and law firms specialising in compensation which claim to speak for the victims of child abuse would have been found guilty too.
These victims can be endlessly invoked – safe in the knowledge that we usually do not know who they are, or even whether they are victims at all – to say that they are not being heard, or, if heard, not believed. Fiona Woolf quits as head of child abuse inquiry. Mrs Woolf, a City lawyer and Lord Mayor of London, stepped down after abuse victims met the panel of inquiry into historic child sexual abuse to discuss the case on Friday.
It follows claims that a letter setting out Mrs Woolf's contacts with Lord Brittan and his wife was redrafted seven times, with guidance from Home Office officials, before being sent to Home Secretary Theresa May. Watch?v=9ILOZ2Hb0pE&feature=youtu. The Establishment. David Cameron warns against 'witch-hunt' amid paedophilia allegations. David Cameron has warned that accusations of paedophilia against senior Conservative politicians risk creating a witch-hunt, particularly against gay people.
The prime minister made his comments after he was confronted on daytime television with a list of names circulating on the internet of Tory politicians possibly involved in child sex abuse claims. The piece of paper was accidentally briefly flashed on air. Speaking on ITV1's This Morning, Cameron appealed to anybody with information to contact the police but raised concerns over the internet speculation about who may be embroiled in the scandal, dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. "I've heard all sorts of names bandied around and what then tends to happen is everyone sits around and speculates about people, some of whom are alive, some of whom are dead," he told This Morning. Schofield later apologised for potentially revealing the names, blaming a "misjudged camera angle".
"If there are more things we have to do, we will do them.