Criminal investigation launched into paedophile ring involving UK politicians in the 1980s, India's New Focus on Rape Shows Only the Surface of Women's Perils

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Criminal investigation launched into paedophile ring involving UK
politicians in the 1980s
Police launch criminal investigation into MPs’ child sex ring
Martin Hickman Author Biography
Thursday 17 January 2013

Scotland Yard tonight launched a full investigation into allegations
that Conservative politicians were members of a paedophile ring which
abused children in care the 1980s.

Operation Fernbridge will centre on the alleged historic sexual abuse
of children at Elm Guest House, in Rocks Lane, a suburban street in
Barnes, south-west London.

Residents of a nearby care home run by Richmond Council claim they
were sexually assaulted at the property by a network of prominent
individuals, including Tory MPs, who used their connections to escape
justice....

Saying that the file contained “clear intelligence of a widespread
paedophile ring”, Mr Watson said at Prime Minister’s Questions: “One
of its members boasts of a link to a senior aide of a former Prime
Minister, who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from
abroad....

In a short statement, Scotland Yard said: “The Metropolitan Police
Service have today, Thursday 17 January, launched an investigation,
Operation Fernbridge, into historic allegations of child abuse in the
early 1980s at the Elm Guest House, Rocks Lane, Barnes, London.

“The investigation will be led by the Child Abuse Investigation
Command.”

The statement went on: “The allegations under Operation Fernbridge
were initially assessed under Operation Fairbank which was information
passed to police by MP Tom Watson. Operation Fernbridge reached the
threshold for a criminal investigation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-launch-criminal-investigation-into-mps-child-sex-ring-8456434.html



India's New Focus on Rape Shows Only the Surface of Women's Perils
January 13, 2013
By GARDINER HARRIS / The New York Times

NEW DELHI -- Harassed for years by her husband and his relatives, an
Indian woman was finally kidnapped, raped, strangled and tossed into a
ditch.

For more than a year, the woman's father has tried without success to
get the police to arrest those accused of killing her, including her
husband, who were charged but remain at large. The father, Subedar
Akhileshar Kumar Singh, an army officer, says he believes his daughter
was killed because her in-laws were not satisfied with her dowry,
according to an article on Thursday in The Indian Express.

Such crimes are routine in this country, where researchers estimate
that anywhere from 25,000 to 100,000 women a year are killed over
dowry disputes. Many are burned alive in a particularly grisly form of
retribution.

While a horrific gang rape in New Delhi has transfixed India and drawn
attention to a violent epidemic, rape is just one facet of a broad
range of violence and discrimination that leads to the deaths of
almost two million women a year, researchers say. Among the causes are
not only sexual violence but also domestic violence, family disputes
and female infanticide, as well as infant neglect and poor care of the
elderly that affect girls and women far more than boys and men....
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/indias-new-focus-on-rape-shows-only-the-surface-of-womens-perils-670266/