Child abuse allegations against Cyril Smith are “scurrilous hearsay”, former Liberal leader Lord Steel has said. The peer said “nothing has been proved” yet about the late MP and warned
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A woman asked for forgiveness from beyond the grave for choosing the “love” of a priest who abused her over her sister, an inquiry has heard. The witness, who cannot
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A former orphanage resident has told an inquiry she was sent to a shrine in France to cure her of a “mental illness” by a nun who called her evil.
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Thousands of “pinball kids” are being shunted around the care system, facing multiple changes to their home, school or social workers, a report warns. Just one in four children in
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A former resident at a Catholic-run orphanage has told an inquiry she was raped by a priest and repeatedly abused by a nun. Helen Holland, who has waived her right
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A former children’s home resident has told an abuse inquiry that a girl jumped from a building to her death after getting “battered” by a nun. Anne Marie Carr, who
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A man has told an inquiry how the sexual abuse he suffered as a child was “whitewashed” during his time at a children’s home. A witness told the Scottish Child
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A girl was sexually abused by a priest after she went to confession, an inquiry has heard. The attack happened when the child went to show the priest a picture
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Ministers have been accused of breaking their promise to cut the numbers of children being “farmed out” to children’s homes huge distances from where they were brought up and live.
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The unequal distribution of children’s homes demonstrates the “continuing catastrophic failure” of the care system for some youngsters, a Labour MP has warned. Ann Coffey said children were being placed
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