In 2014, a series of often seemingly intertwining child sex abuse stories have engulfed the UK in what has become the biggest scandal of modern times. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the whole country feels duped, dirtied, and, worse, connected in some way. Culprits and alleged culprits have included celebrities, the social services and police (whose systemic failures resulted in an estimated 1,400 children being sexually exploited in the town of Rotherham between 1997 and 2013), politicians (the evidence of a pedophile ring operating within the corridors of Westminster during the 1980s is now incontrovertible after London´s Metropolitan Police described allegationsfrom an anonymous survivor as "credible and true" this month), and even employees of the Royal Family (British tabloid the Sunday People recently revealed that the House of Windsor was also implicated in abuses centered around accusations from a 16-year-old boy).
Timeline: Gerald Ridsdale's decades-long trail of destruction
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- Category: Paedophile Priests
- Created: Friday, 06 September 2019 21:55
- Written by Debbie Cuthbertson - The Age
The Catholic Church knew as early as 1970 that Gerald Ridsdale was a danger to children – yet it kept moving him from parish to parish, where he abused many more boys and girls, until his first conviction in 1993.
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Werribee Enters Corpus Christi seminary. Abuses a child at camp for disadvantaged children.
Gerald Ridsdale as chaplain at Nazareth House girls' home in Ballarat in the early 1960s.
- Abuser Name or Alias:: Gerald Risdale
- Abusers Organisation:: Catholic Church
A look back at the pedophilia scandals that Swallowed Britain whole in 2014
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- Category: Paedophile Rings
- Created: Wednesday, 31 December 2014 00:23
- Written by Tim Burrows - Vice
In 2014, a series of often seemingly intertwining child sex abuse stories have engulfed the UK in what has become the biggest scandal of modern times.
Bishop names late Tory MP Enoch Powell in child sex abuse, satanic worship scandal
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- Category: Paedophiles in the system
- Created: Monday, 30 March 2015 00:18
- Written by Reuters Thompson
FILE PHOTO 23 June 1993. Enoch Powell. (Reuters) © Reuters
Powell, who died in 1998, is one of a series of high-profile figures named in a Church of England (CofE) review into historic sex abuse, which was given to Scotland Yard by the Bishop of Durham Paul Butler.
‘Reopen investigation into Westminster pedophile whistleblower deaths’ – MP
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- Created: Tuesday, 23 December 2014 00:02
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Reuters/Russell Boyce © ReutersA Labour MP has demanded the government reopen an investigation into the suspicious deaths of two whistleblowers he believes were in possession of significant evidence relating to historic child sex abuse, which infiltrated the heart of Westminster.
John Mann, a Labour MP for Bassetlaw, has urged Home Secretary Theresa May to address state secrecy shrouding these allegations.
Mann believes the Official Secrets Act is obstructing ex-Special Branch police officials from stepping forward with vital information relating to sordid allegations regarding a child sex abuse ring affiliated with powerful Westminster elite figures throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
At least 40 UK politicians complicit in alleged Westminster 'pedophile ring' – report
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- Created: Saturday, 05 July 2014 23:40
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The Palace of Westminster (Reuters / Kieran Doherty).
A whistleblower who kicked off UK police pedophile probe Operation Fernbridge believes as many as 40 British MPs and peers were involved in or turned a blind eye to child abuse.
Peter Mckelvie, a retired child protection team manager, who has spent more than 20 years compiling evidence of alleged child abuse by people in authority, believes ten current and former politicians are on the list and that there is enough evidence to arrest at least one senior politician, reports the Daily Telegraph.
MPs linked to boys trafficked from Belfast to London, child sex abuse survivor says
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- Created: Tuesday, 07 April 2015 23:35
- Written by Reuters Thompson
Westminster Abbey in central London (Reuters/Olivia Harris) © Reuters
Vulnerable young boys were taken from a children’s care home in Belfast in the 1970s, trafficked to London and abused by powerful figures who were part of a Westminster pedophile ring, a victim has claimed.
Child abuse inquiry: no-one has immunity from scrutiny
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- Created: Thursday, 09 July 2015 23:28
- Written by Channel 4 News UK
Opening the long-awaited inquiry into child sexual abuse, Judge Lowell Goddard pledges that “no matter how powerful”, no-one will be allowed to obstruct inquiries.