Rochdale Council’s chief executive has apologised for the authority’s “unforgivable” response to concerns about sexual abuse at a residential school for boys linked to the late politician Cyril Smith. Smith
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Sexually abused children as young as 12 could still be denied compensation under revised official guidelines on the grounds they had “consented”, it has been reported. The Criminal Injuries Compensation
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A woman has claimed she was abused at an orphanage run by nuns where the bodies of hundreds of children were “buried” in a mass grave. Theresa Tolmie-McGrane told the
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A survivor of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham has described her shock at being turned down for full compensation for what she suffered because authorities deemed she had consented to
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The number of cases involving a child committing a sexual offence against another child aged 17 or under reported to prosecutors has risen by more than a third in four
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A senior detective who investigated the Newcastle grooming gang said the abusers underestimated their victims’ desire to get justice. Speaking after sentences totalling more than 180 years were handed down
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A man who claimed he had been raped and abused by a Westminster paedophile ring could face charges after the police referred his case to prosecutors. The accuser, known only
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A British woman suspected of being one of the ringleaders of a criminal network involved in trafficking young women for sexual exploitation has been charged under the Modern Slavery Act.
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A psychotherapist has been jailed for 17 years for the rape of a 14-year-old boy in a “degrading attack” in the toilets of a leisure centre. Nicholas Gully, 48, of
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Plans to make it easier for male victims of sexual and domestic abuse to come forward it have been unveiled by prosecutors in what has been described as a “landmark
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