Cameron orders child abuse claim investigation
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November 6, 2012, Tuesday
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BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday ordered an investigation into the way historic child abuse claims in a Welsh children's home were examined.
The move comes after a paedophile victim told the BBC that an unidentified Conservative Party figure had abused children in social care during the 1970s.
"Child abuse is an absolutely hateful and abhorrent crime and these allegations are truly dreadful and they mustn't be left hanging in the air, so I'm taking action today," Cameron said.
He said the victim, Steven Messham, would be given a meeting with the minister for Wales and urged anyone with knowledge of abuse to report it to the police.
"I'm going to be asking a senior independent figure to lead an urgent investigation into whether the original inquiry was properly constituted and properly did its job and to report urgently to the government," Cameron said.
The unmasking of late BBC star presenter Jimmy Savile as one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders has prompted concern that some powerful paedophiles from the 1970s and 1980s may have used their influence to shield them from punishment.
The BBC's current affairs program aired child abuse allegations last Friday night against what it called a Conservative political figure from the era of Margaret Thatcher, who served as prime minister from 1979 to 1990. He was not named.
Steven Messham, one of hundreds of victims of sexual abuse at children's care homes in Wales over two decades, told BBC Newsnight that he was sexually abused by a prominent Conservative political figure and others in the late 1970s.
The move comes after a paedophile victim told the BBC that an unidentified Conservative Party figure had abused children in social care during the 1970s.
"Child abuse is an absolutely hateful and abhorrent crime and these allegations are truly dreadful and they mustn't be left hanging in the air, so I'm taking action today," Cameron said.
He said the victim, Steven Messham, would be given a meeting with the minister for Wales and urged anyone with knowledge of abuse to report it to the police.
"I'm going to be asking a senior independent figure to lead an urgent investigation into whether the original inquiry was properly constituted and properly did its job and to report urgently to the government," Cameron said.
The unmasking of late BBC star presenter Jimmy Savile as one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders has prompted concern that some powerful paedophiles from the 1970s and 1980s may have used their influence to shield them from punishment.
The BBC's current affairs program aired child abuse allegations last Friday night against what it called a Conservative political figure from the era of Margaret Thatcher, who served as prime minister from 1979 to 1990. He was not named.
Steven Messham, one of hundreds of victims of sexual abuse at children's care homes in Wales over two decades, told BBC Newsnight that he was sexually abused by a prominent Conservative political figure and others in the late 1970s.
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