UNITED KINGDOM
ITV
Britain’s inquiry into institutional child abuse has been thrown into fresh turmoil after its third chairman resigned.
New Zealand high court judge Dame Lowell Goddard claimed the inquiry had struggled to shake off its “legacy of failure” and called the job a “struggle”.
The inquiry, which is unprecedented in scale, was set up in March 2015 to investigate historical child sex abuse allegations against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and other public and private institutions.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who accepted Dame Lowell’s resignation on Thursday, insisted the new inquiry would “continue without delay” and a new chairman would be found.
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