UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By MARTIN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE
Alleged child abuse by VIPs at Westminster, Church of England and Catholic priests and celebrities will be at the centre of the new national inquiry, it was revealed today.
Councils in Lambeth, Nottinghamshire and Rochdale will also be probed, inquiry chair Justice Lowell Goddard has announced.
Speaking in central London the New Zealand judge set out 12 different areas which will come under scrutiny.
The Anglican and Catholic churches and ‘certain people of public prominence associated with Westminster’ are facing investigation in the independent child abuse inquiry, she said.
The probe was set up last year following claims of a high-level cover up of abuse and has been beset by delays following the resignations of two previous chairwomen.
It will be Britain’s largest-ever public inquiry and is expected to take up to five years and cost tens of millions of pounds.
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