UNITED KINGDOM
RTE News
Britain’s largest ever public inquiry will travel from the “corridors of power” in Westminster to the poorest parts of the country to uncover the true scale of child sex abuse, its chairwoman has vowed.
Judge Lowell Goddard issued a stark warning to individuals and institutions that they will face scrutiny, “no matter how apparently powerful”.
She said both victims and society had been left “scarred” by historic abuse and referred to estimates suggesting that one in 20 children in the UK has fallen victim as evidence of the “sheer scale” of the problem.
Finally opening the troubled inquiry, the judge stressed it will not hesitate to make findings relating to named people and organisations.
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