UNITED KINGDOM
The Telegraph
By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
09 Jul 2015
The sexual abuse of children has left “scars” on victims and society, the chair of the long-awaited independent inquiry into historical abuse has said.
Judge Lowell Goddard, formally opening the probe, said the inquiry “provides an opportunity to expose past failures of institutions to protect children”.
She added: “The task ahead of us is daunting.”
The inquiry was set up last year amid claims of an establishment cover-up following allegations that a paedophile ring operated in Westminster in the 1980s.
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