UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
17 Oct 2013
Victims came forward to report more than 4,500 extra sex crimes in England and Wales in the year to June – a total of 55,800 – compared with the previous 12 months, the Office for National Statistics said.
Experts have described the sudden leap as the “Yewtree effect”, named after the police investigation into Savile’s five decades as the country’s most prolific abuser.
There was a 100 per cent rise in “historic” sex abuse allegations that took place more than 20 years ago, the figures show, as victims are thought to be more confident their allegations will be taken seriously by police.
But the high-profile Savile investigation is also thought to have led to a rise in the number of recent attacks reported to police, which rose 5 per cent year-on-year.
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