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Ramrod

05-02-2004 23:26

Child abuse allegations

This really takes the biscuit. :(

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The Court of Appeal has overturned the conviction of a former care worker who was serving an eight-year sentence for child abuse.

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The court heard that evidence by two former pupils did not tally with dates Mr Sheikh was employed as housemaster at the North Yorkshire home

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More than 100 former teachers and carers are to have their convictions of child abuse investigated.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission and Historical Abuse Appeal Panel are reportedly planning to look into the possibility that there have been dozens of miscarriages of justice.

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There are now fears that some of the alleged victims made false claims in the hope of compensation

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'And often there is very little evidence apart from what the complainants themselves, the alleged victims, have to say.'

kronas

05-02-2004 23:29

Re: Child abuse allegations

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The court heard that evidence by two former pupils did not tally with dates Mr Sheikh was employed as housemaster at the North Yorkshire home

so if he was not working there, how could he have done it ?

Ramrod

05-02-2004 23:30

Re: Child abuse allegations

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Originally Posted by kronas

so if he was not working there, how could he have done it ?

Exactly :afire:
...and what also naffs me off is that this will make things harder for genuine victims of abuse :(

kronas

05-02-2004 23:32

Re: Child abuse allegations

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Exactly :afire:

is this one of those knee jerk reaction cases, its child abuse so the offender is guilty, until proven inoccent..........

danielf

05-02-2004 23:46

Re: Child abuse allegations

The scale of these things always amazes me (like it did with the cot death cases) . Like Kronas says, it's a knee jerk reaction, and indeed it makes it harder for genuine victims. :(

zoombini

06-02-2004 08:12

Re: Child abuse allegations

How?

Xaccers

06-02-2004 08:22

Re: Child abuse allegations

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Originally Posted by kronas

is this one of those knee jerk reaction cases, its child abuse so the offender is guilty, until proven inoccent..........

You have to ask, what the heck was his defence doing to have missed that he wasn't actually there at the time, during in the first trial????

paulyoung666

06-02-2004 08:32

Re: Child abuse allegations

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

You have to ask, what the heck was his defence doing to have missed that he wasn't actually there at the time, during in the first trial????

lawyers making far too much money out of cases like this annoy the hell out of me , it should never have got as far as this , no way , just another money making enterprise :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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