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REPORT LIFTS LID ON CHILDREN'S HOMES SEX SCANDAL
Monday, February 14, 2000 03:06
A damning report into two decades of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of
hundreds of youngsters in Welsh children's homes is being published tomorrow.
The �10 million report from the North Wales Child Abuse Tribunal of Inquiry
is expected to lift the lid on one of the biggest child sex scandals Britain
has ever seen.
Over 206 often harrowing days, the tribunal, based in the remote village of
Ewloe, in Clwyd, Wales, heard evidence from 250 witnesses and received
another 200 written statements.
The tribunal heard allegations that over 20 years, up to 750 children in 40
residential homes in North Wales were abused by the people who were supposed
to care for them.
Opening the inquiry, Mr Gerard Elias QC said: "Children in Clwyd and Gwynedd
were abused physically or sexually on a scale which borders on wholescale
exploitation."
The tribunal heard that at least 12 alleged victims killed themselves in the
years after they left the homes.
Many of the victims are planning a multi-million pound lawsuit against the
councils which were supposed to be entrusted with their care.
Appalling details of systematic sexual abuse, bullying, and neglect of
children as young as seven, were heard by the tribunal, chaired by former
High Court judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse.
The report is expected to condemn the actions of local social services,
councils, police and even the Welsh Office for allowing the abuse to continue
despite complaints from children and concerns raised by some workers.
Allegations of abuse were made as early as 1986, but four internal reports
and police investigations concluded that there was nothing wrong with the
homes.
Many of the councils then responsible for children in care are now defunct,
and most of the officials who were in charge then are no longer in their
positions.
Social worker Alison Taylor, who acted as a "whistleblower" in 1986, was
suspended from her job and later sacked after expressing her long-standing
concerns about abuse at the homes.
The tribunal was ordered in 1996 by the then Welsh Secretary William Hague
after a string of care workers at the childrens' homes were jailed for abuse.
Among them was Stephen Norris, former head of the Cartrefle council home near
Broughton in Clwyd, who pleaded guilty in 1990 to sexual offences against
boys in his care and was jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Three years later he was jailed for a further seven years after being
convicted of the sexual abuse of six boys at the nearby Bryn Estyn home.
In 1994, the deputy head of Bryn Estyn was convicted of sexual offences
against seven boys and jailed for 10 years.
John Allen, owner of the Bryn Alyn home, was jailed for six years in 1995
after being found guilty of sexually abusing six boys.
Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy will announce the findings of the Waterhouse
report in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
A helpline has been set up to counsel victims and their relatives when the
report is published.
� Press Association
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