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Tameside Ex-Scout Leader jailed for child sexual abuse
An Ex-Scout Leader has been jailed for more than five years following non-recent sex offences. Graham Avison, of Astbury Avenue, Audenshaw was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court on Monday to five years and seven months in jail and issued with a Sexual Harm...
Richard Cottyn – jailed for eight years for 90 child sexual abuse offences
An assistant headteacher who targeted teenage girls for sex and indecent images with 'extremely manipulative behaviour' has been sentenced to eight years in jail. Teacher Richard Cottyn, 36, from Sheffield, was charged with a staggering 90 offences involving more than...
IICSA – The Roman Catholic Church Investigation Report published
The investigation report examines the extent of institutional failings by the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales to protect children from sexual abuse and examines the Church’s current safeguarding regime. It draws on evidence from the Inquiry’s three case...
Graham Tattersall – former PE teacher jailed for sexual assaults on female pupils at Garth Hill School
A "remorseless" PE teacher has been jailed for a string of sex attacks against female pupils at his school. Graham Tattersall, 68, abused the girls when he worked at Garth Hill School in Bracknell, between 1979 and 1991. A Reading Crown Court trial last month...
Christ’s Hospital School Convictions and investigations
Religious and Church, School and Teacher Abuse
Remedy Law are instructed by a number of former pupils of Christ's Hospital School in relation to alleged offences spanning many decades. Below is a comprehensive list of those who have been the subject of Police investigations and of whom are former staff of Christ's...
Scout leader jailed for child sexual abuse whilst on Scouting camps
Student Oliver Cooper, 27, from Nor'Bren Avenue in Bognor Regis was found guilty at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday of child abuse charges. They included two counts of sexual assault on a girl aged six, one count of sexual assault on a girl also aged six, one count of...
IICSA – Inquiry report finds Anglican Church failed to protect children from sexual abuse
IICSA, News, Religious and Church
The Church of England failed to protect children and young people from sexual predators within their ranks, according to a report published today (6 October) by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. From the 1940s to 2018, 390 people who were clergy or in...
Benjamin Thomas a former BBC presenter and pastor has been jailed for child sex offences
Media Updates, News, Religious and Church
A former BBC presenter and pastor has been jailed for 10 years and four months after he confessed to his “dark secret” as a prolific sex abuser. Benjamin Thomas, who worked on Wales Today and Welsh language children’s programme Ffeil, was sentenced at Mold Crown Court...
Church of England to set up £200million scheme to compensate survivors of historic sex abuse by bishops and clergy
The Church of England is setting up a multi-million-pound compensation fund designed to funnel money to victims of historic sex abuse by bishops, clergy and lay church workers. Its ‘interim pilot support scheme’ will make the first payouts from a compensation process...
Peter Webb Jailed For An Additional 12 Months Relating To Offences At Christ’s Hospital School
A former housemaster who sexually abused boys at an exclusive boarding school was jailed for a third time today – just a few days before his release date. Peter Webb, 77, was due to be released this Friday after serving a five-and-a-half year sentence for abusing boys...
Survivors of multi-millionaire paedophile priest Michael Studdert may be entitled to part of his estate.
Authorities are searching for victims of a multi-millionaire paedophile priest who may be entitled to part of his estate. Michael Studdert died on 9 August 2017. He was a convicted paedophile. A website created by Nockolds Solictors has been made live in accordance...
Abuse Redress Schemes – what exactly are they?
IICSA, Lambeth Redress Scheme, News
Abuse Redress schemes are an alternative to litigation and can be used to provide justice to a large number of individuals. However, how effective are they in practice? How can they be administered and do they provide the same outcome as litigation? Redress Schemes...
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