Goddard Quits As Sex Abuse Inquiry Head

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36982049

No more news at the moment.

[Jomlett]

Lowell Goddard, New Zealand judge will be replaced and work of inquiry continues, says Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

[mikey4444]

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-08-04/dame-lowell-goddard-resigns-as-head-of-independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-abuse/

[jno]

That's a shame, I was hoping they were finally getting their investigations on track under someone who had no connection with any of the suspects.

[fiction-factory]

I guess she is not happy with the personal criticism she has had for taking holidays and feels this is a taste of things to come but maybe there is more to it. This could go on for some time!

[mikey4444]

I now doubt that this much-needed Inquiry will ever get off the ground.

[Jomlett]

Tom Symonds ‏@BBCTomSymonds Goddard was criticised last week for appearing uncertain about Britain’s reporting restriction laws.

Tom Symonds @BBCTomSymonds The inquiry has also been attacked by those cleared of abuse allegations including the family of Lord Janner

[anneasquith]

This enquiry is a joke, 3 chairwomen appointed by the conservative party? Theresa may? Now back at square one. She has made a tidy sum from the taxpayers though.

[Khandro]

Why wasn't she given a contract to do the job?

[Gromit]

If at the outset they had deliberately designed it to fail, they couldn't have done a better job at stymieing the inquiry.
The constant rewind back to square one looks highly suspicious.

[anneasquith]

I agree gromit , is it impossible to find a suitable uncontaminated chairperson in Britain? Might this enquiry never actually come to a conclusion ?

[mikey4444]

It looks like Goddard resigned because the Times criticised here for taking 70 days off in the last year.

[youngmafbog]

It's a thankless task and one that could entail 10years of constant battering by the press, MP's and disgruntled public.

I can't say that I blame her, although ther eis no way I would have undertaken it in the first place.

Unfortunately Mickey I have to agree, looks like this will never get off the ground.

Perhaps instead we should focus on current day to ensure it is not happening now and never does in the future. Maybe that is achievable.

[mikey4444]

ymb....the Inquiry is now set up and is proceeding. The best way out of this fiasco is put one of the existing Inquiry Team in charge on a temp. basis, pending the appointment of a new Chair.

Here is the website :::

https://www.iicsa.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are

Any one of the above Members could easily take on the Chairship, until replacement is found.

I am not so easy to forgive and understand Goddard however....she is a very experienced Judge and she would have realised what she was taking on and to effectively "flounce" because of some criticism is not worthy of her.

It may have been a mistake, of course, to appoint someone from so far away. I would have thought that there are plenty of possible candidates that live within commuting distance that could do this job without too many difficulties.

To abandon this Inquiry now, after so long would be a mistake. It was said on the BBC this morning, that about 7% of adults in Britain have suffered some kind historical sexual abuse and those people need to see that justice is being done. We need to learn the mistake of the past in order to prevent them happening again now.

Child sexual abuse is still going on now....it hasn't gone away, nor will it, unless we take the whole issue seriously.

[murraymints]

it will NEVER go away..regardless of what investigations are conducted..sadly :0(

[ToraToraTora]

pointless endevor anyway, what will it achieve?

[mikey4444]

Why is it pointless TTT ?

"If we do not learn from the mistakes of history, we are doomed to repeat them. ... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it "

[ummmm]

You really seem to struggle with human emotions, TTT. If it helps the victims finally move on then it's achieved something. If it stops one perv from abusing children then it's achieved something.

[douglas9401]

What about Chilcott? He's got time on his hands now and knows how the game works.

[ToraToraTora]

what are they trying to achieve? Yes countless people were kiddie fiddling, some are in jail, some are being investigated and tried some have been exhonerated, let that continue. I just don't see how producing 25 phone directories of "findings", that no one is ever going to read beyond the Janet and John summary page, benefits anyone beyond a load of lawyers.

[mikey4444]

TTT....we disagree on this profoundly !