You are not going to like this, if you are aware of child abuse be it sexual or physical abuse I believe I am correct in saying this you are not obliged in Law to report it to the Authorities including the Police.
Paedophiles will seek employment in Child Care, Education, Boy Scouts, Cadet Corps, Children's Home, etc with the intention of satisfying their perverted sexual urges.
One case I do know something about was the now infamous Islington Council Children's Homes the vulnerable children both boys and girls were sexual abused over many years, they would be plied with drink and drugs in exchange for sex, boys were encouraged to become Rent Boys, girls likewise violence in the homes was common.
Dr Liz Davies who worked in the Homes blew the whistle back in 1990 the Leader of Islington Council was Margaret Hodge now Dame Margaret basically dismissed the claims,
Former Islington Council leader Dame Margaret Hodge has expressed remorse for her handling of the child abuse scandal – but a victims’ group has reacted
Senior council staff accused Islington children of making up the abuse they suffered in care, Dame Margaret Hodge has claimed in an interview.
The former council leader, who has been Labour MP for Barking and Dagenham since 1994, admitted she had listened to officials but not victims and blamed an attempt to stop a later investigation and undermine one victim on “a s***ty bit of advice”.
Her comments have angered the Islington Survivors Network (ISN), which represents hundreds of former children’s home residents who say they were abused.
founder Dr Liz Davies.
Dr Davies, then an Islington social worker, raised concerns about the children’s homes in 1990 but was dismissed.
But in 1992, a major investigation by the Evening Standard suggested the borough’s homes had been infiltrated by paedophiles.
Staff and children claimed drug-dealing, sex trafficking and violence were rife.
The scandal resulted in a 1995 investigation called the White Report, which found the council had not properly investigated many allegations.
In an interview with the Guardian this month, she said she’d had meetings with police and senior council officers after the Standard’s investigation.
“We went through allegation after allegation,” she claimed. “They all said: ‘There’s no truth in any of them’.”
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At the time, though, “I believed them,” she said. “And what I didn’t do, which I should have done, was talk to the kids.”
Mrs Hodge admitted trying to block a BBC report on the scandal by questioning a victim’s credibility.
She told the Guardian she now felt “terrible” about it.
“I was advised to do that, and that was a s***ty bit of advice,” she said – but refused to say who the advice came from.
Former social worker Dr Liz Davies, whose decades of campaigning eventually forced Islington Council to admit and apologise for widespread abuse in its children’s homes, criticised Margaret Hodge’s comments
Dr Davies said: “Margaret Hodge still refuses to disclose the details of those professionals who she says misled her in the 1990s.
Some of the children that were abused have now been paid thousands of pounds for the abuse which has left some of them with serious mental health issues.
A few miles from where I now live is a small village called Letterfrack where the Christian Brothers ran a care home for orphaned or abandoned boys , wholesale rape and beatings, the place was shut down all that is left is a small graveyard where some of the boys were buried, why they died nobody knows
My wife went to Kylemore Girls School nearby run by Nuns, beatings were common they were brutal, she and other locals suspected something was not right but nobody did anything or talked about it.
A local retired Irish Police Officer who I know well worked the area where my wife and I now live we meet up at least once a week for a Pint with one of my Brother in Laws and his brothers,
Obviously the ex Officer and myself talk about our days in the Police, as he worked this arear for years he knows what went on, he was almost at retirement age however because of his local knowledge he was asked to stay on and Investigate what happened at the Boys Home, it took him 6 years to track down one of the Christian Brothers still in Ireland
He interviewed the Christian Brother several times who calmly told him what he had done at the Home even which boys he had sexually abused, eventually he was charged pleaded guilty to all the charges and was sentenced to 10 years not long enough IMO
