UK: Child sex abuse review: impossible to prove a cover-up

Geoffrey Dickens believed Parliament treated accusations of
sex abuse lightly because influential people were involved

A review of the Home Office's handling of paedophile ring allegations in the 1970s, 80s and 90s has ruled it is impossible to say whether there was a cover-up.

The probe by Peter Wanless - chief executive of the NSPCC children's charity - looked at how the Home Office dealt with information handed over by the late Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens, as well as other allegations in 114 missing, lost or destroyed files.

The report said: "It is ... not possible to say whether files were ever removed or destroyed to cover up or hide allegations of organised or systematic child abuse by particular individuals because of the systems then in place.

"It follows that we cannot say that no file was removed or destroyed for that reason."  (more...)

UK: Child sex abuse review: impossible to prove a cover-up

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