UNITED KINGDOM
Morning Star
There is something amiss in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse when its third chairperson resigns amid disturbing revelations about its ever-changing remit. It has certainly lost the confidence of the victims, says STEVEN WALKER
Back in April Justice Lowell Goddard, the chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, admitted that she was going to ignore allegations against prominent politicians as directed by the then home secretary Theresa May.
She also agreed to stop investigating allegations of a cover-up of such criminal activity by the security services, the police and Whitehall.
When she recently resigned from the inquiry Goddard became the third chair to quit in two years.
She was appointed by May, who also changed the terms of the inquiry to focus on institutions covering an enormous swathe of public life such as schools, hospitals, churches, children’s homes, youth clubs — anywhere children were meant to be looked after.
The widening of the inquiry was seen as an obvious attempt to take the spotlight off what was emerging as a potential parliamentary paedophile scandal dating back decades.
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