LONDON (ENGLAND)
Premier Christian Media
May 3, 2019
Religious organisations across England and Wales are set to be investigated by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
Faiths including Buddhism, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Baptists and religious settings such as mosques and synagogues will all fall within the scope of the newly announced probe.
The investigation into child protection in religious organisations and settings is the inquiry’s 14th strand.
The IICSA said more than one in ten survivors of child sexual abuse who shared their accounts with the inquiry’s Truth Project reported sexual abuse in a religious institution.
Of these, almost a quarter said they were abused in institutions in the scope of the new investigation.
Independent Inquiry in Child Sexual Abuse
The IICSA said the latest strand will review the current child protection policies, practices and procedures in religious institutions in England and Wales.
Other organisations falling under the remit of the investigation will include non conformist Christian denominations, Methodists, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and Hinduism.
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