UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
A child sex abuse inquiry’s fourth chairwoman has said some forces want to stop a light being shone on “dark institutional failings” after a victims’ group quit the probe, branding it an “unpalatable circus”.
Professor Alexis Jay vowed to push on with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) after the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (Sosa) and Labour MP Chuka Umunna called for her replacement.
Sosa delivered a blistering critique of IICSA – calling it a “stage-managed event” which has “lurched from crisis to crisis”.
But Prof Jay, writing in The Times, said: “I have fought for this inquiry – for its independence, its reputation and its vital capacity to right a terrible wrong – since it opened, and I don’t intend to stop fighting for it now.
“There are some people who would like to see us fail because it suits their agenda to not want dark institutional failings brought into the light.
“But shine that light we will, because there are many, many people in this country who spend every waking minute of every day living with the damage and the pain caused by child sexual abuse.”
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