As well as the other stories, Channel 4 also reported how Savile was put in charge of mental hospital Broadmoor at the height of his fame. That’s part of their collection of story transcripts reported in the past ten days which you can read here.
From Monday 29th April there is an update due on further allegations of historical child sexual abuse at North Welsh residential care homes from the 1970s onwards. Over 100 further disclosures were received by police following last year’s initial enquiry regarding the Bryn Estyn and other notorious care homes in Wales. The BBC has the…
The Bishop of Limerick, Donal Murray, has resigned following the release of the Dublin Archdiocese report which we mentioned at the end of last month. That document spanned almost three decades of abuse and cover-up. As ever, read about it at the BBC here with all other information linked in the right hand box next…
Last winter the Daily Mail formally reported a 40 year old general story about the unwitting association by paid membership of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) now known as Liberty in the 1970s. Three people who went on to become Labour MPs, governing for 13 years, were working there and along with 999…
News wires in general have reported on the tracking and break-up of a worldwide paedophile ring that peaked at 70,000 members sharing child sexual abuse images involving a minimum of 230 boys. You can read the story at the BBC here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12762333 and the link in the centre of the story reports on the first…
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