UK protection agencies apologise to incest victims

North America News.Net
Wednesday 10th March, 2010

Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public agencies.

The women were subjected to sexual abuse and beatings by the father, who forced them into pregnancies which resulted in the births of seven children over 25 years.

Apologies were made during the publication of an government summary into how the cases of the women were handled by child safety agencies.

The apology acknowledged the family had had contact with 100 members of child safety staff over 35 years.

The 56-year-old father, from Sheffield, is currently serving a life sentence for repeatedly raping his daughters.

He was jailed in 2008.

The review board heard of how the father moved his family 67 times to keep his abuse crimes, which started when the daughters were between eight and ten, a secret.

The Sheffield and Lincolnshire safeguarding children boards apologised unreservedly to the two women, saying they had failed the family.

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