How
Cumbria County Council hired a paedophile-pimp childkiller in its child
protection department…and promoted another employee while he stood
trial for distributing paedophile pornography
Yesterday, I posted at some length about how Conservative Under Secretary of State Edward Timpson is a dyed-in-the-wool member of the Care System being set the task of reforming that system….and doing everything but that. The Slog: In today’s second part of this study of contemporary systemic child abuse in Britain, we look in more detail at how tribal instincts promote cover-ups of every kind, and with astonishing regularity, at local government level.
Having been hounded by a couple of irate ‘care’ system workers following recent Slogposts about endemic perversion in Britain’s childcare system – “it’s just more conspiracy theory fantasy” etc etc – I thought last week it might be useful to put the ‘rarity’ claim to rest. However, since then so much evidence of rotten local government has come to light on the subject, this has turned into a Slog Special double-header. My goal – along with thousands of other commentators – is to once and for all end the glib “it’s only a small problem” drivel put about by the likes of Edward Timpson.
We start in Bridgend.
A Walesonline post of five weeks ago recorded how Bridgend Council’s Serious Case Review (SCR) into the care of Child S found she was left in the care of a carer…even though the Council knew he had a record of sexual offences against children. Her case was passed to a new social worker who traced the carer’s record and blew the whistle. By this time, S’s neighbour had also raised the alarm about the child being molested by the carer.
The Council did nothing.
After further prodding and outbursts, Bridgend opened a file on the case, and offered the convicted child sex offender an NSPCC risk assessment. He refused to take it. The police now piled in and confirmed the man’s record of abuse.
The Council at last now did something. It closed the case file.
Bridgend MP Madeleine Moon will be writing to council leader Mel Nott (left) to make sure the SCR report’s recommendations have been implemented. I’m not holding my breath on this one, if only because the Council’s response thus far has been the usual heady mixture of smugness and obfuscatory jargon. For example, ‘In this case, the previous convictions of the former male carer for sexual offending were known about by the relevant agencies, but the historic nature of these and the absence of any identified current concerns led professionals to believe that he no longer posed a risk’. There it goes again, the same tripe about ‘no longer a threat’: anyone engaged in studying chronic paedophiles knows that redemption levels are minute. So why do these employees keep on insisting the opposite? It remains hard for the objective observer to put this down entirely to ignorant stupidity….a theme that continues in more cases presented later in this post.
I’ll tell you the other reason why I’m less than impressed with MP Moon (seen left with Jacqui Smith) simply writing to Mel Nott about this. Haringey Council – by every report’s account a slipshod authority when it comes to childcare – has been through five SCR’s about this in the last four years. In Bridgend county borough there have been thirteen over the same period.
I would’ve thought an urgent Parliamentary Question at least Madeleine. But I doubt if that’s going to happen: you see, Ms Moon is through and through Labour….as is her mate Mel Nott.
And I’ll tell you another reason why Maddy won’t want to rock any boats here: before becoming Labour MP for Bridgend, she worked for, um, Bridgend social services. Yesterday’s post on this issue observed, about Under-secretary for children Edward Timpson, ‘Edward Timpson is the personification of a system that fails. No wonder he speaks in favour of it.’ Similarly, no wonder Mad Moon MP is restricting her Mel Nott response to a letter.
A large proportion of uninvestigated paedophilia incidents can be traced back, with dogged research, to a political (or other interest) group’s desire to protect its own. Such unethical blind eyes and cover-ups are conducted without any thought for those who have suffered: in Cruel Britannia today, tribally-sociopathic corruption is almost the norm…always remembering that the person they’re covering for is psychopathically cunning in the first place.
Paedophile fireman William Wyllie insisted he was innocent when charged by Lancaster police with serious paedophile offences; he did this because it meant he could carry on being paid after suspension from his Fire Brigade job. While he was awaiting trial, however, his senior officers promoted him.
There are suspicions locally that he was paid and promoted to make Wyllie look like a jolly good egg who’d been mistakenly charged. In fact, there had been rumours about his activities for some time. And then two days before his trial, the fire station manager switched his plea to guilty. Earlier this week, he was sentenced – for crimes that included swapping indecent images of children with London-based prolific HIV-positive paedophile Steven King, jailed in 2011 for four years for arranging to have sex with children as young as five. Wyllie’s sentence? A three-year community order, which will involve three years’ supervision and a sex offender treatment programme. This is a farcically light sentence from a judge on a man who swindled the taxpayer with help from this employers.
The Cumbrian Fire Service is answerable to Cumbria County Council. Jill Stannard, head of Cumbria County Council, retired early at 55 a few weeks ago…and has been given a golden handshake on top of her very nice thank you local government pension. Currently, the Council is refusing to say how much the payoff was – but she was on £170,000 per annum salary. While in her role, Ms Stannard pushed through measures to increase the price of meals-on-wheels, and a cut in the wages of the County’s teaching assistants. It may seem like I’m drifting off the point here, but I’m not: this sort of back-scratching and secrecy is endemic in local government.
“What always strikes me here in Cumbria,” she said on her retirement, “is that, no matter what the challenge, our staff always face it head on and find solutions. This council is a great place to work with truly dedicated and committed staff and, as I prepare to leave, I take this opportunity to once again pay full credit to the people who work here.” Especially William Wyllie, it seems.
Why did the Council try to put Fireman William Wyllie in the best light? I can’t say with certainty: but I can point out Cumbria Council’s odd track record in such matters. Let us turn to the case of Lianne Smith.
Smith (left) was appointed a manager in Cumbria County Council’s child protection department in 2003. By 2007, she and her husband Martin Smith were under a cloud relating to sexual abuse of children and pimping them to paedophiles. During this time, Mrs Smith also worked as a high-class hooker. The couple moved on hastily to Staffordshire (whose endemic paedophilia problems I’ve posted about several times in the past) where her partner was this time charged with raping infant girls. Released on bail (why?) he skipped abroad with Lianne Smith, and was finally extradited from Barcelona after Spanish police caught up with him in May 2010.
Immediately afterwards, Ms Smith checked into a hotel and murdered her two daughters. In 2010, her husband was given a 16-year sentence for his crimes. He committed suicide in December of that year.
Amazing that, don’t you think? Amazing, but not remotely unusual. During 2011, half of all sex offenders were spared jail. Judges let 2,497 – or 43% – of the 5,784 convicted walk free from court. Between 2005-2011 – while the Smiths were about their business with the blessing of local Councils – the number of sex criminals allowed straight back into the community increased by 20%. Over the same period, child abuse carried out by offenders within a year of their community sentences soared by 250%. 60% of paedophiles receive sentences of under three years. But during the 2004-11 period, sexual assaults on boys and girls under 13 more than doubled.
So then, Edward Timpson MP: still think this is all conspiracy theory? You do? OK, then I’ll just have to carry on.
A paedophile ring in Oxford – seven men were sentenced on May 23rd – had been active on an industrial scale for eight years, but Oxford social services failed to take any action. Oxfordshire County Council CEO Joanna Simons accepted that the Council had been “at fault” – but insisted she will not be resigning after the ring’s members were found guilty of child rape, trafficking and organising prostitution in Oxford.
“There is going to be an independent serious case review which will look at the actions of all the agencies concerned… [but] my gut feeling is that I’m not going to resign because my determination is that we need to do all that we can to take action to stamp this out,” she opined gallantly. Yet another SCR to keep the protection board too busy to investigate how exactly they got away with it.
Child protection experts said that the six victims of the ring were “let down by those who were meant to care for them and obvious signs of abuse were missed”. The gang continued its brutal sexual abuse despite the concerns of some social workers….and reports to police officers at an early stage. But were they let down by incompetence or insider protection? This happens so often across Britain, I truly cannot believe that every single case is down to trained personnel who’ve gone blind at some point and not noticed. There is more going on here, and the British political Establishment knows this perfectly well. From the Richmond Council scandal to Staffordshire via Plymouth and Bridgend up to Cumbria, Councils are protecting employees, police are ignoring the signs, and obvious perverts are getting through the vetting procedures. How?
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I’ve put up this Special for many reasons, but there’s one I think
could be the most important. On Tuesday 18 June, 2013 at 12:30 and then
again at 18:00, there will be a public meeting in The Ramada Plaza
Hotel, Wrexham. The Wrexham to Chester belt is a particularly important
area for the study of child trafficking from the UK care home system.
The Secretary of State for Justice, Chris ‘Fishbrain’ Grayling MP,
announced in November 2012 that a review of Sir Ronald Waterhouse’s
inquiry into the abuse of children in care in the Gwynedd and Clwyd
Council areas would be established. The Issues Paper can be found on the
Macur Review website. Mrs Justice Macur has issued this statement:‘I consider it to be extremely important to make myself and my team available in a venue local to the events and circumstances which led to the “Waterhouse Inquiry” to meet with and hear from the people who were directly or indirectly involved and wish to impart information which may be significant to my review. It is vital to engage directly with those affected by the issues central to my review.’
Now this could easily turn into yet another review of an enquiry reopened after a previous enquiry enquired into a police report about why a previous police investigation got nowhere and then was closed. This is a golden opportunity for concerned people to make it strenuously clear to the Establishment that citizens of the UK are now tired of non-reforms of the Family Courts by Grayling, and systemic deckchair rearrangement by Edward Timpson in the childcare system.
It is a chance to be constructively voluble. It is, perhaps, an opening for those who care about our vulnerable children to speak up about the continual glossing-over of organised paedophile access to children removed from their families by the State. We are not going to weed these people out of the system by creating yet more committees and writing yet more pamphlets or asking the odd teacher to warn kids off internet porn. To get rid of weeds, if you aren’t going to do it by hand, requires a systemic weedkiller that will burn out the roots.
I further think that we need to take note of this extract from the Mancur press release:
‘This is
not a press conference. There will be an opportunity at the start of the
12:30 session for media to take pictures/film for background however
there must be no sound-bites of the session itself. Recording equipment
must be switched off and packed away for the duration of both sessions’
I’m not sure I follow the logic of that: as
this is a review not a trial hearing, there is surely no case for sub
judice concerns here. In particular, the ‘must be switched off and
packed away’ bit is all too typical of the Establishment’s desire for
cards to be held tightly to chests at all times. The media may not be
able to record audio-visually, but they can still report what they see
and hear. Those with media contacts should start perstering MSM hacks to
get on the case with all speed.
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The trick is to look at why they do that. And sadly – as always – the reasons mainly or wholly involve the influence of money and power.
To see a classically indirect (but utterly pernicious) example of this, pick up on the Government/Google story.
Google is unwilling to voluntarily stop porn sites using its search engine from contacting kids. It has in turn not adopted new technology available to detect pervs on kids’ sites, about which I posted recently. Nobody in authority has given Google a hard time about any of this. When I was starting out as a blogger and Oliver Letwin was still in Opposition, I tackled him about both Google’s 1984 invasiveness – and mendacity on the subject. He agreed there was a problem and that – as and when the Tories came to power – they would look at it. It seems to me that, rather than looking at it, they turned a blind eye to it.
Now think on this. David Cameron and his wife Samantha were among the congregation of a posh Cotswold church recently as Naomi Gummer, the top Google executive in charge of public policy, got spliced. She was previously political adviser to Jeremy Hunt when he was Culture Secretary in charge of internet regulation. Guess what? The South-West Surrey MP now spookily awarded the NHS brief was also there. The bride’s father, Lord Chadlington, 70, is president of Mr Cameron’s local constituency association.
As the Daily Mail confirms of other guests, ‘Rachel Whetstone, Google’s top global spinner, is a former No 10 aide and was Michael Howard’s director of communications when he was Tory leader. She is married to Steve Hilton, the T-shirt-wearing guru who is Mr Cameron’s close friend and former director of strategy at No 10. The power couple are regarded as key members of the Notting Hill set of Conservatives who propelled Mr Cameron to Downing Street, and at one stage Miss Whetstone was known as their young queen’. Well, I suppose at least it makes a change from having an old male queen pulling the strings.
Now tell me: given all those incestuous links, what do you really think the chances are of Camerlot taking concerted action to protect our children?
Friends of mine may balk when I use the word élite to describe these self-satisfied, self-serving arses; but somehow ‘Establishment’ doesn’t cut it either – as it is far too suggestive of respectability. These unpleasant, grubby nonentities are the élite – that’s part of my problem with them.
So bad is this situation, ordinary British citizen Maggie Tuttle has been moved to found Children Screaming to be Heard - a charity providing safe houses for care kids. Just think about that: when the first duty of every civilised Sovereign State is to protect its citizens from illegal attack, a UK citizen has had to start an organisation to protect children in the care of the State from illegal attacks about which that Sovereign State doesn’t want to know.
And do you know why that situation pertains? Because the Government of the country I love – and of whose cultural history I will remain unswervingly proud no matter how many Stalinist revisionists try and wrestle it to the ground – doesn’t work for us, the citizens (the ones who proffer our votes for free and then pay their disgracefully over-expensed wages) any more. It works for those like Google, Goldman Sachs, the European Commission, Monsanto, and all the other sociopathic corporatists busy making such a total balls of the World. And it does so because they have the Money to keep persuading the People to keep putting them in Power.
There is nothing at all wrong with money per se. But money is an oil f**king up the ideally clean, waterpowered nature of politics. Either we vote to keep them apart in perpetuity, or cultured civilisation as we know it will cease to be. The only sound left will be the screaming of our children.
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Influential money is underwriting
those who would desecrate innocence
The Slog: Somebody bright whom I like a lot emailed me last night to ask why
did I write about pervy sex all the time. It was (and is) a fair
question, but it comes into the same class as those who ask why I write
about something “as braindead as football”. The answer is that, before
the New Ethics got hold of it, football was a wonderful game. The same
is true of sex before the Caligula-heads got involved.
I spoke to my chum today, and she made the entirely correct point
that paedophiles have been around forever. They have of course, but we
have never before had the kind of media to give its existence such wide
awareness…..coupled with an Establishment desperate to give it such a
wide berth. During the course of compiling The Paedofile here at The Slog, I have tried to enumerate all the reasons why systemically
based paedophilia exists. But ultimately, there is only one reason why
that particular form of it exists: because enough powerful people are
prepared to protect those committing the crime.The trick is to look at why they do that. And sadly – as always – the reasons mainly or wholly involve the influence of money and power.
To see a classically indirect (but utterly pernicious) example of this, pick up on the Government/Google story.
Google is unwilling to voluntarily stop porn sites using its search engine from contacting kids. It has in turn not adopted new technology available to detect pervs on kids’ sites, about which I posted recently. Nobody in authority has given Google a hard time about any of this. When I was starting out as a blogger and Oliver Letwin was still in Opposition, I tackled him about both Google’s 1984 invasiveness – and mendacity on the subject. He agreed there was a problem and that – as and when the Tories came to power – they would look at it. It seems to me that, rather than looking at it, they turned a blind eye to it.
Now think on this. David Cameron and his wife Samantha were among the congregation of a posh Cotswold church recently as Naomi Gummer, the top Google executive in charge of public policy, got spliced. She was previously political adviser to Jeremy Hunt when he was Culture Secretary in charge of internet regulation. Guess what? The South-West Surrey MP now spookily awarded the NHS brief was also there. The bride’s father, Lord Chadlington, 70, is president of Mr Cameron’s local constituency association.
As the Daily Mail confirms of other guests, ‘Rachel Whetstone, Google’s top global spinner, is a former No 10 aide and was Michael Howard’s director of communications when he was Tory leader. She is married to Steve Hilton, the T-shirt-wearing guru who is Mr Cameron’s close friend and former director of strategy at No 10. The power couple are regarded as key members of the Notting Hill set of Conservatives who propelled Mr Cameron to Downing Street, and at one stage Miss Whetstone was known as their young queen’. Well, I suppose at least it makes a change from having an old male queen pulling the strings.
Now tell me: given all those incestuous links, what do you really think the chances are of Camerlot taking concerted action to protect our children?
Friends of mine may balk when I use the word élite to describe these self-satisfied, self-serving arses; but somehow ‘Establishment’ doesn’t cut it either – as it is far too suggestive of respectability. These unpleasant, grubby nonentities are the élite – that’s part of my problem with them.
So bad is this situation, ordinary British citizen Maggie Tuttle has been moved to found Children Screaming to be Heard - a charity providing safe houses for care kids. Just think about that: when the first duty of every civilised Sovereign State is to protect its citizens from illegal attack, a UK citizen has had to start an organisation to protect children in the care of the State from illegal attacks about which that Sovereign State doesn’t want to know.
And do you know why that situation pertains? Because the Government of the country I love – and of whose cultural history I will remain unswervingly proud no matter how many Stalinist revisionists try and wrestle it to the ground – doesn’t work for us, the citizens (the ones who proffer our votes for free and then pay their disgracefully over-expensed wages) any more. It works for those like Google, Goldman Sachs, the European Commission, Monsanto, and all the other sociopathic corporatists busy making such a total balls of the World. And it does so because they have the Money to keep persuading the People to keep putting them in Power.
There is nothing at all wrong with money per se. But money is an oil f**king up the ideally clean, waterpowered nature of politics. Either we vote to keep them apart in perpetuity, or cultured civilisation as we know it will cease to be. The only sound left will be the screaming of our children.
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