Abuse

Some of the best journalism of past weekend on the English and Welsh child abuse scandals ofthe past 40 years came from the Independent on Sunday. In addition to its own retrospective on the North Wales Jillings report (here in case the link didn’t appear in the previous story) they also profiled a family of…

The Jillings report, the first concluding document from the original investigation into systematic abuse at Welsh children’s care homes, has been rediscovered in council archives. This follows public demand for it to be fully released last week. The article is here with last Thursday’s quoted demand for the report in the story crawl at the end. The Independent on…

Stephen Meesham repeated his 1990s abuse allegations earlier this week and in the wake of the subsequent internet gossip, the wrong senior Conservative politician was identified – again. The confusion wasn’t resolved by Channel 4 news filing a report on Thursday 8th November stating they had been shown a compiled list including a Tory politician that, like…

Homeless drifter Stephen Farrow claimed to have been abused by an Anglican priest as child, which fed his hatred of religion. In addition to various violent acts during his youth, his actions finally culminated in the stabbing murders of another priest, Rev. John Suddards, and 77 year old Betty White. We don’t call it Life without…