UNITED KINGDOM
Express
By JON ROGERS
Sat, Dec 17, 2016
The troubled £100 million inquiry, currently chaired by Professor Alexis Jay has unveiled her delayed review after a series of crises have hampered the government investigation.
However the review has already been met with outrage from various victims’ support groups as it was revealed that the public inquiry would talk to convicted paedophiles.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) states: “In addition we will carry out qualitative research with convicted sexual offenders to understand how child sexual exploitation networks are formed and sustained.”
Andi Lavery, who runs White Flowers Alba, a group of victims abused in the Catholic Church, said: “Interviewing paedophiles is wrong. It is demeaning. It is turning this into an experiment and it makes us survivors feel like laboratory rats. I am not being treated like a human being by Jay. They are using us as research.”
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