UNITED KINGDOM
Mirror
11 February 2015 By Jack Blanchard
Child sex crime in Britain is a huge international scandal, the new head of the Government’s abuse inquiry warned.
Justice Lowell Goddard, from New Zealand, told MPs: “There has been worldwide interest in this. I can’t say there has been anything like it that I can recollect in New Zealand.”
She was making her first appearance in Parliament after being appointed to head the inquiry into historic child abuse.
The previous two chiefs were forced to quit over ties to the British establishment.
Justice Goddard said she had no links to people relevant to the inquiry.
She flew to Britain on Monday to meet survivors’ groups before the hearing at the Commons home affairs committee.
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