Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public agencies.
The women were subjected to sexual abuse and beatings by the father, who forced them into pregnancies which resulted in the births of seven children over 25 years.
Apologies were made during the publication of an government summary into how the cases of the women were handled by child safety agencies.
The apology acknowledged the family had had contact with 100 members of child safety staff over 35 years.
The 56-year-old father, from Sheffield, is currently serving a life sentence for repeatedly raping his daughters.
He was jailed in 2008.
The review board heard of how the father moved his family 67 times to keep his abuse crimes, which started when the daughters were between eight and ten, a secret.
The Sheffield and Lincolnshire safeguarding children boards apologised unreservedly to the two women, saying they had failed the family.
| By jose luis belmar, 03-11-10, 05:50 AM |
Incest victims receive apologies from protection agenciesAs usual! This case is one more of the never ending story of protection agencies failing to do their job. They needed protection at the time, not apologies now. Stupids! |
| By Sheet Head, 03-11-10, 12:41 PM |
| So if these assaults took place & children were born over a 25 year space, how old are the daughters, & their children? They must have been able to run away once they became teenagers? What happened to their children after they were born? If they kept them, why?? Lots of unanswered questions. |
| By goomba, 03-11-10, 10:46 PM |
| protection agencies should be a branch of the police, instead of a bunch of incompetent public servants sitting on their fat asses and doing nothing or passing the buck then wringing their hands and saying sorry and doling out millions of taxpayer money in compensation |
| By hey nonny mouse, 03-11-10, 11:17 PM |
| I too have been a victin of insect. I have been bitten many times and protection agencies did not respond to my complaint. I had five children to a giant mosquito, and one to a caterpillar named Garry. The poor little creatrue died after developing little wee crumpled wings and trying to fly off the balcony. |
