UNITED KINGDOM
Breitbart
MPs have called on Home Secretary Theresa May to set up an inquiry into historical cases of child sex abuse. Former Children’s Minister Tim Loughton and fellow Conservative Zac Goldsmith are among the names calling for a national investigation into repeated failings by police in dealing with a wide variety of cases.
Other MPs calling for an inquiry are Labour’s Tom Watson and Simon Danczuk, Liberal Democrats Tessa Munt and John Hemming and the Green Party’s Caroline Lucas.
Exaronews reports that the MPs want an inquiry similar to that set up to investigate the Hillborough football stadium disaster of 1989, which uncovered the truth about an episode that involved police failure.
Although several inquiries have been set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandals, in which the deceased BBC TV star was unmasked as a prolific sex offender and paedophile, critics have said they are too disparate and need to be united into one.
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