Theresa May: Child sex abuse runs through British society like ‘a stick of Blackpool rock’

‘People in Britain do not yet “appreciate the true scale” of child sexual exploitation that runs through society “like a stick of Blackpool rock”, Home Secretary Theresa May has warned.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, the Home Secretary said that following a major inquiry into child abuse, currently led by Justice Lowell Goddard, “we will never look at society in the same way again.”

She warns that the trail will lead into schools, hospitals, churches and youth clubs as well as “many other institutions that should have been places of safety but instead became the setting for the most appalling abuse”. She described revelations up to this point as “just the tip of the iceberg”.’

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