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The BBC reports on a case from the Court of Appeal. The court has upheld a decision that a Catholic diocese should be held liable for abuse at a former boys’ school. The abuse is said to have taken place between 1960 and 1992 at St William’s in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire. Middlesbrough Diocese is facing an [...]
The BBC reports that more than one in six official inquiries into the most serious cases of child abuse in England are inadequate, according to the watchdog Ofsted. In its evaluation of 147 serious case reviews from April 2009 to March 2010, Ofsted found 16% had “weaknesses”. This is better than 2008/9, when 34% of reviews [...]
The BBC reports that a 48 year old man from Ashford has admitted 19 counts of sexual abuse and was sentenced on Friday. He had forced one victim to watch footage of child abuse and carried out sex acts on an eight-year-old girl. He had been due for trial in May 2008 but fled to Sierra Leone. [...]
The BBC reports that an “unimaginably wicked” former priest has been given a prison sentence of 21 years for sexually abusing boys in the West Midlands. The 73 year old was found guilty of 21 charges relating to offences against boys, all aged under 16, between 1959 and 1983. The man had been extradited from the US [...]
The Times reports that a business executive’s wife has been imprisoned for torturing and abusing three adopted children for almost a decade. The 45 year old woman had slapped and stamped on the children, as well as plunging them in cold baths and suffocating them with a pillow. Each year there are about 5,000 adoptions [...]
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