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| 31 October 2002 |
| Home Affairs Select Committee report published on Haloween |
There is hardly enough space to summarise adequately the contents of this report. Better to look at our press release and the House of Commons own release. It represents a natural democratic airing of backlash by those who allege injustice. Without at all linking those who abused in the past and the alleged wrongfully convicted of the present, there are uncomfortable parallels with the way complaints were silenced when the abuse was committed many years ago. Let us hope that justice for those who want to disclose today is not impinged.
News stories abound - here are just a few:-
Police Defend Abuse Case Trawling (BBC News)
MP's attack Care Home Abuse Injustice (The Telegraph)
Child Abuse Trawls Snaring Innocent (The Guardian)
Is it surprising that notwithstanding our press release having been circulated to all the major new agencies that ACAL is not mentioned in one of the articles? ......read
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