UK Home Secretary Theresa May reported to Parliament today following the apparent suicide of a rape trial witness reported last weekend. The Daily Mail has the story here with the BBC overview from the weekend here.
We’ve a few stories to catch up on from the start of the year but the revelations of more systematic child abuse and the making of child abuse images which was covered up, separate to that of Jimmy Savile, has been widely reported due to the arrests of two men in the last few days….
Richard Landers was abducted 19 years ago in Indiana and has now been found. His his own grandparents are believed to be the kidnappers. Sky News has the story here.
Central London Police station New Scotland Yard published a 30 page report into Jimmy Savile’s reign of Child Sexual abuse and grooming today, in conjunction with the NSPCC which is measured at between 40 and 50 years, the victim count has risen to 600 without an upper limit and there were at least ten more hospitals where he…
Catching up with the final story from the end of last year, a paedophile who was captured when the police reversed the angle of a shop sign in one of his child abuse images was sentenced to six years in Lincoln, England. The Daily Mirror has the story here.
The current UK Government has proposed a register for children perceived at risk from abuse, resurrecting an idea from the previous Government it had suspended due to practicality and cost. The BBC had the story just after Christmas 2012 at the news site here.
