UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian
Frances Perraudin
@fperraudin
Monday 6 July 2015
The Labour MP who helped expose the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith as a paedophile is to step back from campaigning against child sexual abuse to seek help for depression.
Simon Danczuk, who has been the MP for Rochdale since 2010, said victims’ accounts of their experiences of sexual abuse had left him unable to sleep and experiencing flashbacks.
“What I’ve experienced is nothing compared to what the victims themselves have experienced, so I feel a bit guilty that I get upset about some of this stuff,” Danczuk told BBC Radio 4’s the World at One on Monday.
“I would say I’ve been suffering from depression to the point where I’ve decided to seek help for that,” he said.
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