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...
British Gymnastics has announced an independent inquiry into “shocking and upsetting” allegations of serious physical and emotional abuse made by multiple elite athletes, including fresh claims of fat-shaming by one London 2012 Olympian.Francesca Fox, who competed as...
Remedy Law have been recently instructed to represent a core participant in the Independent Inquiry in to Child Sexual Abuse which begins its first day of hearings today on the 29 June 2020. In this investigation, the Inquiry will consider the experience of victims...
The Inquiry has published new research into child sexual abuse in sports, which finds that coaches and instructors exploited children’s vulnerabilities in order to groom and abuse them. Based on the accounts of victims and survivors who came forward to the Truth...
A world renowned music director who used "psychological manipulation" and blackmail to abuse and rape a young girl has been jailed. Jonathan Smith, 57, carried out a "campaign of sexual violence" against the girl in Lewes, East Sussex, in the 1980s and early 1990s, he...
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