UK Official Inquiry ‘Presents Horrifying Picture’ of ‘National Epidemic’ of Child Sexual Abuse
LONDON—The UK government should introduce a system for registering all staff who work in care homes and should also appoint a Cabinet-level minister for children, says the final report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
Professor Alexis Jay, who chaired the seven-year inquiry, said, “For too long, child sexual abuse has been considered a problem of the past, despite life-long impacts on its young victims.”
She said, “The sexual abuse of children is an epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of victims in its poisonous wake and some will never recover.”
Unveiling the IICSA’s report on Thursday, Jay said: “The latest statistics suggest that the age at which children become victims is getting younger. The number of sexual abuse offences, recorded by the police, where the victim was a child under the age of 4 has risen by 45 percent in recent years.”…