Sports coaches and faith leaders who have sexual relationships with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care will be breaking the law under new legislation planned for England and Wales. The move would put them on par with roles like teachers and social workers....
A pensioner who sexually abused a child has been jailed almost 40 years later after his victim came forward. Ian Scott, 74, raped his victim, who has lifelong anonymity, on two occasions and indecently assaulted her on four occasions in the 1970s while living in...
Facebook has been accused of choosing to shield paedophiles for profit by ignoring police warnings that its plans to toughen encryption will make the platform a safe haven for abusers. The warning came as one of the UK’s worst child abusers, David Wilson, was jailed...
On the 17 December 2020 IICSA released their ' Truth Project Thematic Report: Child sexual abuse in the context of schools. Charles Derham of Remedy Law, was the lead solicitor instructed on behalf of a group of individuals in the Inquiry who suffered abuse whilst in...
The Truth Project is a core part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (‘the Inquiry’) alongside Public Hearings and Research. It was set up to hear and learn from the experiences of victims and survivors of child sexual abuse in England and Wales. It...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Neil Turner, 67, of Pevensey Garden, Worthing, was sentenced to 28 months in prison at Hove Crown Court yesterday (August 5) after admitting to assaults on six young boys and on an adult with learning disabilities. His latest victims, who were abused from the...
For many decades, Neil Harris abused his position as a dance and gymnastics teacher to sexually assault and abuse his vulnerable victims. In June 2020 he was jailed for a second time. Some of Harris's victims have told of the impact the childhood attacks have had on...
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