Barnardo’s concern over child sex trafficking rise – BBC News
“The UK has seen an ‘alarming’ 22% year-on-year rise in children being sexually exploited, the charity Barnardo’s says.”
BBC News, 13th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: child abuse
Savile: the full shocking truth revealed in official report – The Independent
“Police have recorded 34 rapes against Jimmy Savile and 126 indecent assaults with the vast majority of them against children, the youngest of whom was aged eight, a report into the activities of the former DJ revealed today.”
The Independent, 11th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
DPP statement on Savile cases – Crown Prosecution service
“In October 2012, in light of the more recent allegations of sexual offending by Jimmy Savile, I asked my Principal Legal Advisor, Alison Levitt QC, to examine the decisions taken by the CPS in relation to the four allegations made in 2007 and 2008 and advise me whether they were correct or not.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 11th January 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
Runaway child rapist David James jailed for 16 years – BBC News
“A child rapist brought back from the US after more than 20 years on the run has been jailed for 16 years.”
BBC News, 10th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Gagging order preventing Sun report on child protection scandal overturned – The Guardian
“The Sun has won a two-month battle to overturn an injunction brought by Bristol City Council that prevented it from reporting details of a child protection scandal.”
The Guardian, 9th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Call for evidence – Macur Review
“The Independent Review of the Waterhouse Tribunal will today publish an Issues Paper calling for views on the scope of the original Inquiry and whether or not it sufficiently investigated specific allegations of child abuse in North Wales care homes.”
Macur Review, 8th January 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
ASA bans adverts over use of Jimmy Savile references – The Guardian
“The advertising watchdog has criticised a magazine and a clothing firm for attempting to drum up business by using images of the late Jimmy Savile in email campaigns, including one which features the disgraced ex-presenter wearing what appears to be underwear while smoking a cigar.”
The Guardian, 9th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Wales child abuse: Judge appeal to Waterhouse witnesses – BBC News
“The judge leading a review of an inquiry into sexual abuse at care homes in north Wales has appealed for witnesses to come forward.”
BBC News, 8th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Landlord John Tatton forced girl to ‘pay’ for rent in sexual favours – BBC News
“A landlord who forced a teenage girl to ‘pay’ for her rent with sexual favours has been jailed for four years.”
BBC News, 7th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
In re A (A Child) (Family Proceedings: Disclosure of Information) – WLR Daily
“The identity of a third party and the allegations of sexual abuse which she made in confidence against the father of a child who was the subject of contact proceedings would be disclosed in those proceedings since to do so would not violate her right to protection from inhuman or degrading treatment under article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and would be a proportionate interference with her right to respect for her private life under article 8, since it was justified by the need to protect the parents’ and child’s rights to a fair trial and respect for their family life, guaranteed by articles 6 and 8 of the Convention.”
WLR Daily, 12th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court: Articles 3, 6 and 8 ECHR in child protection PII case – Panopticon
“There have been a number of important privacy judgments in recent weeks, particularly concerning Article 8 ECHR in cases with child protection elements.”
Panopticon, 13th December 2012
Sally Bercow facing £50,000 High Court battle over Lord McAlpine tweet – Daily Telegraph
“Sally Bercow is being sued for £50,000 by Lord McAlpine after he formally issued
proceedings over an allegedly libellous tweet.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Review in to the Waterhouse Inquiry underway – Ministry of Justice
“The independent review chaired by Mrs Justice Macur DBE, which will consider the scope of the Waterhouse inquiry and whether any specific allegations of child abuse falling within the terms of the reference were not investigated by the Inquiry, has now commenced.”
Ministry of Justice, 28th November 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
CPS statement in relation to Cyril Smith – Crown Prosecution Service
“In March 1970, some 16 years before the Crown Prosecution Service was formed and when Sir Norman Skelhorn was the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), a file of evidence was submitted to the then DPP’s Office.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 27th November 2012
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
Child Sexual Exploitation Inquiry interim report – The Office of the Children’s Commissioner
The Office of the Children’s Commissioner, November 2012
Source: www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk
Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society and others – WLR Daily
Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society and others: [2012] UKSC 56; [2012] WLR (D) 335
“A lay Catholic teaching order whose brother members were assigned by it to teach at various schools was jointly vicariously liable with the school management body for acts of physical and sexual abuse committed by the brothers while employed by the school management body at a residential school.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Lord McAlpine in £125,000 settlement over ITV broadcast – BBC News
“Conservative peer Lord McAlpine has reached a £125,000 settlement with ITV and Phillip Schofield. It is in relation to a This Morning programme broadcast in November during which the presenter handed the prime minister a list of names of alleged abusers he had found on the internet.”
BBC News, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Catholic teaching institute liable for abuse at school – BBC News
“A Catholic teaching institute is liable for alleged physical and sexual abuse at a former boys’ school, the Supreme Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 21st November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Thousands of children sexually exploited each year, inquiry says – The Guardian
“Thousands of children are raped and abused each year, with many more cases going unreported by victims and unrecorded by the authorities, according to an official study presented as the most comprehensive inquiry to date of the scale and prevalence of child sexual exploitation in England.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Nazir Afzal: how the CPS plans to bring more child abusers to justice – The Guardian
“The north-west head of the Crown Prosecution Service talks about bringing the Rochdale child sex ring before the courts/”
The Guardian, 21st November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
