A nun has admitted to an inquiry that she mistreated children at two orphanages and described another sister’s alleged actions as “cruel”. The 77-year-old, who cannot be identified, said youngsters
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A former visitor services warden at Buckingham Palace has been jailed for nine months after downloading more than 15,000 child abuse images. Tony Aslett, 52, from Pagham, West Sussex, was
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Ministers have been urged to stump up more cash to help victims of child abuse rebuild their lives. Labour MP Sarah Champion, who has campaigned for victims of abuse in
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The director of public prosecutions has pledged to apologise over failures in 47 rape and serious sexual offence cases where vital evidence was withheld from defence lawyers. Alison Saunders was
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We’d like to introduce ourselves to the readers of Care Appointments. We’re the IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) and we’re the organisation removing child sexual abuse imagery from the internet. It’s
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A 30-year-old man has been jailed for 23 years for drugging and raping men he met on the dating app Grindr, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Sam Ashley,
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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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Girls and women in their late teens and early twenties are significantly more likely to suffer abuse at the hands of a current or former partner than those in older
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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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