UNITED KINGDOM
Manchester Evening News
Sep 16, 2014 06:00 By John Scheerhout
One in four of Greater Manchester Police’s best detectives are now working on historic sex abuse cases, it has emerged.
Some 40 of the 160 officers on the force’s Major Incident Team are dealing solely with sex cases dating back to the 1960s.
They range from the high-profile probe into disgraced former MP Cyril Smith to investigations into alleged grooming gangs and abuse at care homes across Greater Manchester.
The unmasking of Jimmy Savile and other public figures as sex abusers has encouraged more and more people to come forward with complaints.
The Smith probe has so far uncovered 20 alleged victims who say they were abused between at Knowl View boys’ home in Rochdale and other places.
Some 24 others have come forward and alleged they were abused by others at Knowl View.
It has emerged an investigation into horrific abuse at the former Broome House care home in Didsbury has been re-opened after a man reported he was raped by staff in the mid-1990s. Three men have been arrested.
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