Information provided by victims to the independent child abuse inquiry has been deleted, it has emerged. The inquiry said that due to a change in its website address on September
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Focusing on alleged VIP and celebrity sex abuse scandals could be putting victims at risk, the head of the NSPCC has warned. Peter Wanless, the charity’s chief executive, said concentrating
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A former children’s home principal who has already been jailed for 21 years for sexually abusing boys in his care has gone on trial accused of further offences. A jury
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An increasing number of child abuse cases involving accusations of witchcraft and exorcism are being reported to police. In one incident, a boy of nine was called a “devil child”
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Scotland Yard has hit out at the BBC after it broadcast a Panorama programme focusing on the claims of a man who made allegations of child sex abuse by a
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A former Archbishop of Canterbury today denied presiding over a “cover-up” as one of his senior clergymen was jailed for sexually abusing aspiring priests – 22 years after it first
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Victims of child abuse within the Jehovah’s Witnesses may never see the perpetrators brought to justice unless the Government closes a loophole allowing criminals to evade justice, campaigners have warned.
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A public inquiry into the historical abuse of children in care in Scotland will formally start its work today. The Scottish Government pledged to ”shine a light in the dark
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An 86-year-old child rapist would have gone to jail for a very long time had he been a well man, a judge has said. Derek Desmond Butt carried out more
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A woman at the centre of an “utterly depraved” sex abuse ring which used children as “sexual play-things” has been jailed for life. Marie Black, 34, from Norwich, was convicted
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