Time to Rein in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

By Anthony Heaton-Armstrong and David Wolchover
Catholic Register
June 9, 2016

http://www.catholicregister.org/columns/item/22468-it-s-about-time

New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) was primarily tasked with scrutinising failures by officials to investigate abuse allegations. But with the revelation last month of the vast scale of the IICSA’s so-called “truth programme” it has become clear that the inquiry has taken on itself a pseudo-judicial function quite beyond its original remit, write Anthony Heaton-Armstrong and David Wolchover.