UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
The public inquiry into child sexual abuse will not ignore the damage done to prominent people who were falsely accused, Justice Lowell Goddard says.
The judge, who chairs the inquiry, said in an article in the Observer it must strike a balance between the rights of accusers and the accused.
But she also dismissed claims it would mainly focus on famous people.
The inquiry is examining how public bodies handled their duty of care to protect children from abuse.
In the article she said a number of commentators “have in past weeks spoken out, inaccurately, about the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which I chair and the way in which the inquiry will conduct its work. I’d like to correct those inaccuracies.”
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