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UK: Police expect 30,000 new child abuse reports from Goddard inquiry

[caption id="attachment_1134" align="alignleft" width="300"] Justice Lowell Goddard, chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse. Justice Lowell Goddard,
chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse.[/caption]

"Simon Bailey, head of the national coordinating unit Operation Hydrant, said his team was expecting to be given 30,000 reports of new child sexual offences by the end of the Goddard inquiry, and predicted the rate of referrals of allegations of abuse would increase".

 

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