UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
By Tom Whitehead 20 Jan 2015
The troubled inquiry in to child sexual abuse was thrown in to fresh controversy last night after an expert on it claimed she was being “bullied and intimidated”.
Sharon Evans, a child abuse survivor, accused the inquiry’s lawyer of “overstepping the mark” including claims he had put pressure on how she should give evidence to a parliamentary committee.
It is the latest blow for the inquiry set up by Home Secretary Theresa May, to find out whether public bodies had neglected or covered up allegations of child sex abuse in the wake of claims paedophiles had operated in Westminster in the 1980s.
It has already been hit by the resignations of both Baroness Butler-Sloss and then Dame Fiona Woolf as the chairman after each became entangled in allegations of conflict of interest.
Mrs Evans, chief executive of the Dotcom Children’s Foundation, which helps prevent children from becoming victims of violence or abuse, told the Home Affairs Select Committee she felt “bullied and intimidated” by counsel to the inquiry Ben Emmerson QC.
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