A woman who was taken into care as a child over unfounded sex abuse claims is suing a local authority for compensation for her “lost childhood” in a landmark legal case, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. The woman, from Ayrshire, was one of hundreds of children wrongly removed from their families in a series of [...]
Woman sues for lost childhood [caused by false allegations of abuse]
May 11, 2003 from Leave a Comment
Unfounded satanic abuse claims result in Council being sued
May 11, 2003 from Leave a Comment
According to the National Children’s Bureau a former 23 year old women taken into care because of unfounded satanic abuse claims is suing South Ayrshire Council for compensation for her lost childhood. (PDF File – scroll down first to near end) NCB quoting Scotland on Sunday
Social workers rally to defend cleared babysitter
March 9, 2003 from Leave a Comment
SOCIAL workers have leapt to the defence of a babysitter acquitted of killing a one-year-old boy in her care. Unnamed sources in Edinburgh’s social work department were yesterday quoted in one newspaper as saying Tina McLeod was not capable of deliberately harming a child. Scotsman
VICTIMS OF `ABUSE’ BY NUNS DEMAND APOLOGY
March 3, 2003 from Leave a Comment
SCOTTISH victims of systematic abuse by cruel nuns yesterday united for the first time to demand a public apology.Nearly a hundred people from all over the UK recalled the harrowing years they spent in children’s homes run by the Roman Catholic Church.Jim Buckley, who chairs INCAS – a support group for the alleged victims – [...]
Scotland’s Minister to hear rape plea
September 26, 2000 from Leave a Comment
MSPs are to ask Justice Minister Jim Wallace to consider granting anonymity to men accused of rape. It follows a petition from the Glasgow-based UK Men’s Movement which said it was unfair in rape trials for the accuser to be given anonymity, but not the accused. A plea for stricter sentences to be imposed on [...]