Care worker ‘laid into boys’ while his wife watched and laughed, court hears
A care worker at a children’s home took off his glasses and rained down blows on vulnerable boys as his wife laughed and “egged” him on, a court has heard.
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Social workers secure FGM protection order for diplomat’s baby daughter
Social workers fear the baby daughter of a west African diplomat based in England could be subjected to genital mutilation. A family court judge has made the youngster the subject
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Rotherham child sex grooming gang ringleader jailed for 35 years
Arshid Hussain – the ringleader of a gang who groomed, raped and abused teenage girls in Rotherham – has been jailed for 35 years. His brothers Basharat Hussain, 39, and
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Eight arrested following historic abuse investigation at former boarding school
Seven men and one woman have been arrested in an investigation into historical abuse at a former boarding school. Cumbria Police said the arrests were made in connection with “non-recent”
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Savile inquiry hears of TOTP sexual assault on 12-year-old Scots girls
One of Jimmy Savile’s victims was a 12-year-old girl from Scotland who persuaded her aunt to take her to see Top of the Pops. The girl had travelled to London
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Rotherham victims praised for ‘incredible bravery’ in reliving traumatic events
Authorities clamoured outside Sheffield Crown Court to praise victims for their “incredible bravery” in reliving their past trauma. Temporary detective chief inspector Martin Tait, from South Yorkshire Police, called the
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Our lives start now: Rotherham child abuse gang victims welcome guilty verdicts
Victims of a gang led by three brothers who subjected teenage girls to years of rape, violence and prostitution in Rotherham have welcomed their convictions for a range of offences.
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Report: Dame Janet Smith Inquiry report into BBC Abuse
The BBC Trust has published in full the report by Dame Janet Smith DBE of her inquiry into the BBC’s culture and practices during the Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall
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Dame Janet Smith report an ‘expensive whitewash’, says victims’ lawyer
Victims of Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall will feel let down by the Dame Janet Smith report and will see it as “an expensive whitewash”, according to a lawyer representing
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Vulnerable boy in local authority care ‘sold for sex in red light district’
A vulnerable teenage boy in local authority care was subjected to a “horrifying and appalling” series of rapes and repeatedly sold for sex in a red light district, a court
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