Victims Threaten to Abandon Child Abuse Inquiry over Anonymity Fears

By Stephen Naysmith
Herald Scotland
February 27, 2017

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15123835.Victims_threaten_to_abandon_child_abuse_inquiry_over_anonymity_fears/

ABUSE survivors are threatening to abandon a public inquiry into historic sexual crimes in the Scottish care system after it emerged their identities would be revealed to the alleged perpetrators.

Lady Smith, head of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, has said anyone accused of abuse, or any institution alleged to have overseen abuse, will be told the name of the person making the allegations "in the interests of fairness".

Previously the inquiry's rules appeared to suggest this was only a possibility and identification would only occur if it was in the interests of its work.