Child abuse 'may well have been' covered up - Norman Tebbit

[Gary L]

Jimmy Saville is completely different to this in how it was or wasn't investigated.

or is it?

they didn't want to offend Saville. so didn't.

[Ignitionnet]

Ironic South Yorkshire Police managed to send 8 police officers to search Cliff Richards' house while sticking fingers in ears and ignoring all this. Priorities.

Originally Posted by Stuart

Nothing to do with it. Jimmy Saville was white. As were/are a lot of the celebrities and MPs now implicated by the various inquiries instigated as a result of the documentary about Saville. They got away with it for years.

[Russ]

More skeletons tumble out of the closet... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...use-files.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29719090

A victim of historical child sexual abuse has launched a legal challenge to the choice of Fiona Woolf as the chair of the inquiry investigating the issue.
A judicial review application, seen by the BBC, claims she is not impartial, has no relevant expertise and may not have time to discharge her duties.

Hell knows when the inquiry will actually get under way..

[Osem]

Hundreds of young people at risk of child sexual exploitation in Sheffield were let down by police, a whistleblower has claimed.

Ann Lucas, who ran the city's sexual exploitation service, told BBC News she had regularly passed details about alleged abusers to senior officers.

They had repeatedly failed to act, she said, adding the force's priorities had been "burglary and car crime".

South Yorkshire Police said the allegations would be investigated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-29725855

I wonder whether 'targets' have been responsible for some of this. Police tackling and 'solving' easy crimes in order to make themselves look good whilst turning a blind eye to other stuff which would be far harder to deal with without making themselves look bad.

[Ravenheart]

Woolf steps down from inquiry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29855265

Victims' groups had told Home Office officials they were "unanimous" she should quit, citing her social links with ex-Home Secretary Lord Brittan.

Hopefully someone outside of all of this will be brought in though its difficult to imagine how deep it runs.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Ravenheart

Woolf steps down from inquiry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29855265

Paraphrasing: To loose one chair is unfortunate, to loose two looks like carelessness.

They have to find someone who is not connected with the UK establishment, is competent in the fields required and has the approval of the victims groups.

I still think they should look abroad to commonwealth countries, say Canada or Australia for candidates that are familiar with the English law and child protection.

[Osem]

I have a feeling that whoever they appoint, someone will object. This job amounts to a poisoned chalice.

Originally Posted by Osem

I have a feeling that whoever they appoint, someone will object. This job amounts to a poisoned chalice.

It's going to take ages to even get going but then we are talking 40/50 years of abuse so what's a few more months?

[Osem]

A review of the handling of allegations of child abuse by prominent figures has found no evidence that records were deliberately removed or destroyed.

Ministers asked the head of the NSPCC to examine how the Home Office dealt with files alleging abuse from 1979-99.

Peter Wanless's report said it was "not possible" to say whether files were removed to cover up abuse - but found "nothing to support" such a concern.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30002908

Just been listening to part of an interview with Don Hale on LBC, a journalist who was asked by Barbara Castle to look into allegations of child abuse back in the 1980's.

I must say what I heard was as credible as it is worrying. A raft of senior political (and other) figures apparently linked to the Paedophile Information Exchange and quite possibly involved in child abuse but effectively 'protected' by the authorities because to expose them would be damaging and quite possibly 'against the national interest'.

If this is the case then it's no wonder to me that every shred of anything damaging would not only be 'lost' but great effort would also be made to remove or muddy any trace of the means by which it was lost.

Apparently Mr Hale is prepared to talk to the enquiry so it'll be interesting to see if that ever happens.

[Jimmy-J]

Don Hale was editor on a local paper in the 1980’s when Barbara Castle, the local MP for Blackburn who he knew from his time working at the BBC, started to provide him with documents that pointed to a paedophile ring operating within Westminster.

“It was quite explosive really, in terms of what she was showing me; there was a paedophile ring operating within the powers of Westminster, and many of the members were actively supporting the PIE (Paedophile Information Exchange) network. I found it quite amazing, and she gradually came in with more and more paperwork.”

Here's that LBC interview with Don Hale.

[Osem]

This is truly shocking!

The Deputy Prime Minister has described allegations Scotland Yard helped "cover up" the death of an eight-year-old boy at the hands of a Westminster paedophile ring as "grotesque".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...grotesque.html

[Arthurgray50@blu]

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-11-19/t...ster-cover-up/

This whole scenario along with the main page. Is something that will NOT go away.

You solve one problem, and another one will follow. Its the depraved way that this sick people thrive on.

I am 62 years old now, and its been going on since l can remember since a kid. In my young days, it was called something different.

The law enforcement people must close down the internet sites that this people groom the poor kids.
Then have to bring in prison sentences that fit the crime, not the silly two to three years sentences they hand out.

The most prolific person l can remember, was a guy called ' Gleaves' who always carried a letter saying it was quite normal to harm a child.

A major problem is, and always will be the fact that there are not enough people to cover this sick way of life.

It will continue until we deal with this problem.

[nashville]

Every other day there is another top name being talked about, I just wish this would have come out when some of them were alive.