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Monday Nov 24, 201401:17 PM GM
· "Child abuse cases may be tip of
iceberg: UK home secretary
· British Home Secretary Theresa May"
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British Home Secretary Theresa May
says the cases of child abuse by Westminster officials reported so far may be
only the “tip of the iceberg.”
On Sunday, May said it is not possible
to say whether the activities of a British pedophile ring involving politicians
were covered up in the 1980s, calling for an independent inquiry into
historical sex offences against young boys.
It has been alleged recently that records of child sexual abuse by British
politicians were deliberately removed or destroyed by the UK Home Office. Among
the latest allegations are that police may have helped cover up the murder of
an eight-year-old boy by a Westminster pedophile ring. May
said, “It’s not possible to say whether there was a cover-up, that is why I
think it is so important we have the inquiry so we get at the truth.”
“We must, as a society... get to the truth of that and because I think
what we’ve already seen revealed is the tip of the iceberg on this issue,” she
said.
The British minister further lashed out at the institutions protecting
children’s rights for not preventing the cases of abuse from taking place.
“There is a real issue here about how was it that in the past, but
continuing today, the very institutions of the state that should be protecting
children were not doing so. Why was it [that] these abuses were able to take
place and nobody was brought to justice as a result of that?” May said.
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