The chair of a major inquiry into child abuse in Scotland has resigned amid claims she made comments that were “offensive” to survivors. Susan O’Brien QC will no longer lead
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At least one MI6-run agent was aware of sexual abuse being committed in a notorious Belfast boys’ home, according to one of the agency’s historic intelligence documents. A classified MI6
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There was no evidence of paedophile or prostitution rings involving members of the establishment at Kincora boys’ home in Northern Ireland, a retired detective has said. The east Belfast home
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Detectives investigating the murder of a 14-year-old girl more than a decade ago have arrested two men on suspicion of historical sex offences. Charlene Downes disappeared in Blackpool, Lancashire, on
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A play created by York St John University theatre lecturers is to be showcased at a national NSPCC conference this week in London. The production, by Senior Lecturers Rachel Conlon
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Children as young as one have fallen prey to paedophiles using the internet, with crimes including more than 100 rapes involving predators operating online in the last year. The NSPCC
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A former boarding school worker on trial accused of committing a catalogue of historical child sex abuse has been found dead. The body of Darren Turk, 54, was discovered at
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Child welfare professionals were gripped by a “sort of hysteria” when a woman and her two children made sex abuse allegations against a man, a High Court judge has said.
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A third woman who claims Sir Clement Freud sexually abused her has called for his knighthood to be revoked. Vicky Hayes, 64, said the late Liberal politician should be stripped
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Children living in refugee camps in northern France are being subjected to sexual exploitation, violence and forced labour on a daily basis, a Unicef report reveals. The harrowing picture of
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