UNITED KINGDOM
The Telegraph (UK)
August 25, 2019
A child abuse victim who founded Britian’s leading charity for survivors has resigned from a government inquriy after it emerged that he had a sexual encounter with a victim in a restaurant toilet.
Peter Saunders, 61, who founded the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC), was arrested following the encounter which took place in February 2008.
He was not charged with any offence but said that he was “deeply sorry” about the incident and that he would carry the shame for the rest of his life.
As a result, he was forced to resign from his post on the Victims and Survivors Panel of the Independent Inquiry into Childhood Sexual Abuse (IICSA), the public investigation into systemic sexual abuse in schools, churches and other institutions.
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