UNITED KINGDOM
The Northern Echo
THE Bishop of Durham has called for a public inquiry into abuse as peers expressed anger and disgust over the scale of Jimmy Savile’s sexual abuse in hospitals across the country.
The Right Reverend Paul Butler said cases like Savile and Rochdale highlighted that “we have a long history of abuse within institutions” including schools, care homes and churches.
“If we don’t face up to the past failures we will never really improve the future,” he told the Lords.
“Powerful people have engaged in serious abuse and worked with each other to create opportunities and share their vices and victims.”
He said an independent inquiry should examine institutionally based abuse going back up to the past 50 years.
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