Police investigations into allegations of historical child sex abuse have been branded “inadequate” in a new report, which claims more than one-third of such inquiries are substandard. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary’s latest report found the police response to 38 percent of child abuse inquiries in a sample of nearly 600 was inadequate.
Of the 576 cases considered in the report, 177 were deemed of a good standard, 179 regarded as merely adequate, while 220 were viewed as inadequate. In one of the cases, social workers blamed the cause of a four-year-old girl’s vaginal bleeding on eczema, despite her claim she’d been abused by a family member.
INC News, 02/07/2015 - via RT
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