UNITED KINGDOM
Brisbane Times
November 27, 2015
Stephen Holden
London: A major British inquiry into decades of institutional child sex abuse will investigate allegations involving “people of prominence” and politicians as well as the Catholic and Anglican Churches, councils and schools, its head said on Friday.
The inquiry, which will last at least five years and cost about 18 million pounds ($36 million), was set up in July 2014 after a series of child sex abuse scandals dating back to the 1970s, some of which have involved celebrities and politicians.
Various institutions have been accused of failing to deal with abuse allegations and, in some cases, of actively covering them up at the behest of powerful establishment figures such as senior lawmakers, spies and police officers.
“We will conduct an objective fact-finding inquiry into allegations of abuse by people of public prominence associated with Westminster,” said the inquiry’s chairwoman, New Zealand High Court judge Lowell Goddard.
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