‘A coroner who concluded a father had sexually assaulted his daughter shortly before her death “overstepped the mark”, the man’s lawyer has claimed.’
BBC News, 3rd December 2018
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‘The man known as “Nick” whose allegations sparked the Westminster sex abuse probe can be identified after a judge lifted a legal restriction.’
The Independent, 3rd December 2018
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‘Police forces are launching an urgent review of volunteer cadet programmes amid fears they are being used by paedophiles to gain access to children. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating several police officers who worked with cadet groups – which are for young people aged between 13 and 18 – in London and Manchester, and called for safeguarding checks across England and Wales.’
The Independent, 4th December 2018
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‘A 50-year-old man who claimed to be the victim of an alleged VIP paedophile ring in the 1970s and 1980s is to stand trial in March next year.’
BBC News, 19th November 2018
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‘Six men have been jailed for sexually exploiting young girls in Rotherham who were gang-raped and abused by them.’
BBC News, 16th November 2018
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‘A policeman described as a “committed paedophile” has been convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl.’
BBC News, 15th November 2018
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‘Police have been told by government that paedophiles caught with indecent child abuse images can receive conditional cautions instead of jail as police struggle to cope with an explosion of cases.’
Daily Telegraph, 2nd November 2018
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‘Radio DJ Paul Gambaccini has secured a payout from prosecutors over unfounded allegations of historical sex offences.’
BBC News, 3rd November 2018
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‘Four members of a Huddersfield grooming gang have been jailed for a harrowing campaign of violence and sexual abuse against three vulnerable girls.’
The Guardian, 1st November 2018
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‘A drug dealer who murdered his two-year-old son in a “savage and sustained attack” has been jailed for at least 24 years.’
BBC News, 30th October 2018
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‘Seven men have been convicted of a series of sexual offences in the biggest prosecution of a Rotherham grooming gang by the National Crime Agency.’
The Guardian, 29th October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A care home abuse survivor jailed as a teenager for having sex with men has told an inquiry the authorities meant to care for him “destroyed” his life.’
BBC News, 26th October 2018
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‘A husband and wife nicknamed Fred and Rosemary West in their south Wales town have been jailed for grooming and raping teenage girls over three decades.’
The Guardian, 18th October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A teacher who was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old pupil in a plane toilet as they returned from a school trip will not face a retrial.’
The Guardian, 17th October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has published an unprecedented online anthology of sexual abuse in institutions, with 125 victims detailing the horrors they experienced in schools, sports clubs, churches and other groups.’
The Guardian, 16th October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A “sadistic” paedophile who was jailed for 32 years has had his sentence reduced.’
BBC News, 16th October 2018
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‘A paedophile accused of killing two nine-year-old girls more than three decades ago has gone on trial for a second time as prosecutors seek to draw on scientific advances in forensics on top of evidence from an original trial.’
The Guardian, 16th October 2018
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‘Police are giving leaflets to people at risk of committing child sexual exploitation crimes, asking for their behaviour to stop, the BBC has found.’
BBC News, 15th October 2018
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‘A physics teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after travelling abroad to marry a 13-year-old girl.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2018
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‘A 22-year-old woman has been jailed for a string of sex offences against young girls. Alysia Smedley admitted engaging in sexual activity with three girls, who were all under the age of 16. A court heard she was already a registered sex offender, having received a suspended sentence in October 2016 for sexual activity with a child.’
The Independent, 28th September 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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