UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
Martin Evans
16 OCTOBER 2016
Victims of child sex abuse are threatening to sue the independent inquiry set up to help them after complaining that it has increased their suffering.
One man, who was abused at an approved school in Devon in the 1970s, said he was considering seeking damages for the trauma he has endured as the inquiry lurches from one crisis to another.
It could lead to similar claims or the withdrawal of many of those who were due to give evidence.
Known only as Phil, the man, who is a member of the Forde Park Survivors Group, told BBC Radio 5 Live that every time the inquiry had a false start he was forced to relive the horror of the abuse he suffered as a child.
Last week further damaging revelations emerged about the inquiry’s former chairman, Dame Justice Lowell Goddard. She was accused of making inappropriate remarks, including some of a racist nature, during her time in post. …
Child sex abuse inquiry | In numbers
£17.9m 2015/2016 budget
155 Staff members hired to date
3 Resignations of inquiry heads
33 Alleged victims of Lord Janner
188 Core participants in the inquiry
13 Separate historic abuse investigations carried out by the inquiry
2,000 Alleged child sex abuse victims who have contacted the inquiry
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