60 Minutes Australia: Special Investigation - Spies Lords and Predators

It’s shaping up to be the biggest political scandal in Britain’s history. There is new evidence that some of the country’s most respected men were in fact depraved paedophiles. Leaders that were preying on children as young as eight and nine. Many of the kids were trafficked from state-run homes and other institutions to be abused by MPs, Lords, and spies. They were protected from on high by a secret code, and have never been held to account for their horrific crimes. 60 Minutes investigates the scandal and the cover up, speaks to the victims and the witnesses, and confronts a member of the notorious paedophile information exchange. Reporter Ross Coulthart also reveals how children were killed in order to protect this network of predators

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Just horrific. Was difficult to watch it all, the victims pain is very evident. Posting this for any one who may be interested in seeing what is being reported here.

My Country is certainly not without their own scandals. This is revoltingly similar to the well documented sexual crimes that were committed against children by church personnel here. The church authorities concealed the crime from the police and other civil authorities. Thus, a criminal would survive in the church while their colleagues and superiors looked the other way. This encouraged the church's offenders to start (or continue) committing similar crimes. The offenders knew that their church status would protect them from being arrested and convicted.

Beyond disgusting.

I think there's more to discover here regardless of nation. If you're in a country where a church was implicated you should cast an eye to the political establishment, if you're in a country where the political implicated you should cast an eye to the churches. Who knows about the level of private abuses. There's a disturbing cross cultural pattern emerging.

Serenity said:

Just horrific. Was difficult to watch it all, the victims pain is very evident. Posting this for any one who may be interested in seeing what is being reported here.

My Country is certainly not without their own scandals. This is revoltingly similar to the well documented sexual crimes that were committed against children by church personnel here. The church authorities concealed the crime from the police and other civil authorities. Thus, a criminal would survive in the church while their colleagues and superiors looked the other way. This encouraged the church's offenders to start (or continue) committing similar crimes. The offenders knew that their church status would protect them from being arrested and convicted.

Beyond disgusting.

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It's important that this is exposed but it is just too damned painful to watch. Even the death penalty wouldn't be enough for these lowest life forms.

Serenity said:

Just horrific. Was difficult to watch it all, the victims pain is very evident. Posting this for any one who may be interested in seeing what is being reported here.

My Country is certainly not without their own scandals. This is revoltingly similar to the well documented sexual crimes that were committed against children by church personnel here. The church authorities concealed the crime from the police and other civil authorities. Thus, a criminal would survive in the church while their colleagues and superiors looked the other way. This encouraged the church's offenders to start (or continue) committing similar crimes. The offenders knew that their church status would protect them from being arrested and convicted.

Beyond disgusting.

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I'm just watching Channel 4 News and it appears that new files have been discovered at the Cabinet Office that name 4 high-profile figures in allegations of child abuse in the Seventies and Eighties. These aren't the Geoffrey Dickens files that Leon Brittain conveniently 'lost', but it's very, very telling that the first name on that listed is.... Leon Brittain! The other names are ex-diplomat and secret service officer Sir Peter Hayman; former Tory minister Sir William Van Straubenzee (chillingly he was a junior education minister and Northern Ireland minister) ; and Sir Peter Morrison, former aide to Margaret Thatcher. Coincidentally (?) or fortuitously all four men are deceased.

Morrison was arrested previously for having sex with a 15-year-old boy in a public toilet, but was released with a caution after strings were pulled.

I think that these documents will be placed high on the pile of documents now confronting Justice Dame Lowell Goddard.

Interesting developments.