UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph
15 JULY 2014
Baroness Butler-Sloss called today for the police to be given more resources to investigate cases of child abuse.
In her first comments in the Lords after stepping down as chair of an inquiry into allegations of child abuse by establishment figures, the former judge stressed the need to deal with both historic cases of abuse and “recent child abuse … going on across the country at this moment”.
At question time, the independent crossbench peer said the police needed “more money to cope with both kinds of abuse – those of the past and those of the present”.
Lady Butler-Sloss stepped down yesterday from leading the inquiry announced last week by Home Secretary Theresa May following controversy over her selection.
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