Sarah responds to new statistics on historic child abuse

RESPONDING to new official statistics on historic child abuse in England and Wales, Sarah Champion MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for Preventing Abuse and Domestic Violence, said:

This new study paints a frightening picture of endemic child abuse in England and Wales.

The figures reveal the true extent of child abuse in our country, including thousands of previously unreported crimes dating back to the 1960s. It exposes the trauma that so many people have silently lived with for decades.

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