And some of these reported rapists, according to victims, were high status individuals, members of the upper class, people that were prominent, and people that were well known. There are many alleged abusers in the case of the Lambeth Children's Homes, with at least two of them being volunteer police officers.
Those who wanted to report the abuse were intimidated into keeping quiet or forced into silence through murder.
Out of the six of those that were confirmed to be charged, the most notable are Donald Hosgood, Leslie Paul, and Michael John Carroll.
Donald Hosgood was one of the earliest reported abusers, with his case marking the beginning of major child abuse reports at the Holmes. Donald worked as a house parent with his wife at Shirley Oaks starting in 1968, and in 1975, he was tried for 11 charges of rape. According to the victims, there were at least four children that Donald had raped. And yet, though his crimes were diabolical, Donald's trial only lasted four days. He had been asked only to leave their family cottage for two weeks pending developments, and a sickening letter had been provided by Lambeth Council on Donald's behalf. This letter was sent by the Senior Children's Homes Officer, Mr. N. Elliott, to Lambeth Council's Chief Solicitor, or Prosecutor. It described the belief that the allegations were pure fantasy, and that the previous relationship between Donald and the children he cared for suggested personal victimization against him. Donald's victims then received no support from the Lambeth Council through the justice process. Then, one of his victims, named LAA2 by an inquiry report, was found dead in a Shirley Oakes bathroom. So, Donald's victim who came out and spoke against him just two years after the trial was found dead in that same children's home. Even though Donald was reinvestigated in 1998, it was again a failure of justice.
Leslie Paul, the second infamous criminal, was implicated in child abuse at the South Vale Assessment Center in West Norwood. he was accused of grooming children with gifts and then molesting them. Leslie had something that his victims called the bad room, where he would lock the children away and s*** the assault them while acting like he was performing medical examinations. So he would lock these kids in a room, act like a doctor, and s*** these children while he was doing fake medical procedures on them. Leslie Paul, the same guy, was also later implicated in producing CP, as a girl who visited Leslie's home stated that she saw photos of topless children pasted all over his walls. She stated that when she tried to report him back in the 1990s, she was threatened by the Lambeth Council with legal action.
Leslie was jailed for offenses against children in 1994, but he was released in 2002, eight years later, as the sentencing judge believed he had achieved rehabilitation, but in 2015, Leslie was found guilty of 15 indecent assaults, one count of indecency with a child, one count of aiding and abetting indecent assault on a boy under 14, and one count of making an indecent image of a child. He was jailed for 13 years in response to his crimes.
Michael John Carroll was in charge of the Angel Road Children's Home from 1981 to 1990. And Michael himself had been charged with the abuse of a child in 1966, 15 years before he started his position as the manager of a children's home. But because of certain statutes in British law, the Lambeth Council was not aware of his conviction when he applied to be a house manager. And, of course, Michael had refused to disclose it to them. However, they eventually learned of his conviction through a fostering application check made by a neighboring borough. A disciplinary hearing was conducted while he was the house manager And at the end of it, it was decided that Michael neglecting to disclose his prior conviction was not grounds for misconduct. Michael, even after being proven as a s*** offender who had been accused of r***ing children was then allowed to go back to running the Angel Road Children's Home. Now, Michael would go on to be accused of soliciting children to adults, running parties where children were offered to members of the public. Michael would eventually plead guilty to 35 charges of indecent assault and buggery of young boys in the 1970s and 80s.
Police investigator, Clive Driscoll learning that Michael liked to make high-profile friends, began to speak with individuals connected to the Lambeth Council children's homes, such as Miss Anna Tapsell, and Ms. Teresa Johnson, a former counselor and former Angel Road manager respectively. Ms. Johnson believed that Michael was hosting parties in an apartment on the premises of Angel Road, inviting people who were not connected at all to the children's home into this apartment so that they could pay to children. Driscoll confirmed allegations that Ms. Johnson had made about Michael's parties, with a list of 10 children he found who had all made complaints during that time that Michael was in charge of Angel Road. It also came to light that Michael Carroll would attend children's camps and dignified visitors, members of the elite would often show up to these camps unannounced. Driscoll also learned that Michael Carroll had petitioned to become a foster parent in the past and that this process was marked by confusion and disagreement. The Lambeth Council itself was extremely supportive of Carroll's petition, but Carroll needed the support of the neighboring borough of Southwark also. But Southwark refused to grant him this support, finding him unsuitable, as he had a prior conviction of child abuse in the 1960s. Despite Carroll being a convicted pedophile, it seemed to be fine with the Lambeth Council, as he had retained his positions in their child care facility, and a fight between the two councils ensued. The official who blocked a petition in Southwark would eventually receive a call from a man named Paul Bodeng, who asked if there was anything he could do to resolve this disagreement between the two councils. but the official refused his help.
Clive Driscoll eventually wanted to talk to this Paul Bodeng, the man who had made the call to the Southwark official. Paul had also been connected to Michael's parties as as well as Michael's camp visits. Paul had also recently been appointed to the position of Minister of Police, yet suddenly, when this line of inquiry was opened and investigator Driscoll began to tell others of his suspicions, Driscoll found himself removed from the case. Driscoll was accused of stirring up a hornet's nest, But he was also accused of serious indiscretions. He was informed that political sensitivities resulted in his removal from the Lambeth Child Protection Team. Nigel Goldie, another Lambeth official, knew that Driscoll was about to approach Paul. Goldie believed that Driscoll told too many people about his intent to speak to Paul, and Goldie informed the Lambeth Council of his concerns. Within days of this meeting, Goldie was approached by Officer Richard Gargini. Gargini reportedly told Goldie to: "forget about Driscoll and his leads." He was also told nothing more would be done and that the matter was closed. He was especially told to keep the matter to himself. After Driscoll was removed, he was told his case had no substance. He had found credible witnesses, adults, he had found a list of 10 children who could testify that these p****s Parties were happening the locations were there they had found the apartment they had found everything and yet he was taken off the case and told there was no substance but Driscoll himself was mostly concerned at how that officer Gargini knew about his intentions with Paul as he had never told him that officer Gargini had to have been told by someone else someone connected to Lambeth Council after Nigel Goldie expressed his concerns. Driscoll, the investigator, had handed over all of his investigative material on Operation Trawler to officer Gargini, and a new inquiry took place shortly after Trawler was disbanded. Richard Gargini, that officer, was asked to head up the new inquiry called Operation Middleton. This operation was larger in scope and enlisted the help of a team of specially trained social workers known as the Child Abuse in Lambeth Team. The operation became known as the Children's Homes in Lambeth Inquiry, or CHILI. In this new inquiry, Michael, the man who was holding those parties, he was no longer the only suspect. They instead looked at all of the allegations that had been made against Lambeth Children's Homes spanning 20 years of history. Unfortunately, all of Driscoll's notes and his work went missing and none of his leads were ever followed up on. Miss Johnson, one of Driscoll's best witnesses, never spoke to detectives again, except during a general sweep of former social workers in Lambeth. Because her testimonies were suddenly unwanted, she began to feel that the police weren't helping the children of London. They were ignoring their cries for justice. This only became more obvious when documents were presented to the police that suggested that Paul had visited Angel Road while under Michael's care during the 80s, yet, nothing was done to follow up.
In the early days of the investigation, officers announced that they had 40 offenders that they intended to investigate further. However, conveniently, 16 had died. 19 of those people couldn't be identified and only 3 convictions were secured. In its final report, Operation Middleton stated, "It would be unreasonable to judge the success of the operation solely on the basis of the number of successful prosecutions." Now, Paul, the Minister of Police, in a statement, said that he only became aware of Michael when he was arrested in the late 1990s. And he went on to say that he would have been happy to help in the investigation if he had ever been approached, and that he had no recollection of ever visiting the children's home.
But Operation Middleton had other failures, like ignoring Donald Hosgood's crimes, the first pedophile we talked about. Witnesses to Donald's abuses of children were ignored or never followed up on, and there was even some suggestion that the Lambeth Council had told the police that Donald Hosgood was already dead and could not be interviewed. This, however, was obviously false. Operation Middleton ended with only six criminal proceedings. The proceedings of Leslie Paul, William Hook, Jeffrey Clark, and two more offenders.
Raymond Stevenson, another victim of Shirley Oakes, was a music producer who, in 2014, had a chance meeting with a friend whom he had met while living at that care facility. When his friend confessed that he too had been raped while living at the children's home, they decided to create the Shirley Oakes Survivors Association, (SOSA) and it only took a few months for the association to have hundreds of child abuse survivors in their ranks. They all vowed to put an end to the cover-up and to reveal what had been done to them.
Raymond in the past had promoted rising stars like Jesse Jay in his South London production office, but his studio became more akin to a police incident room as SOSA began their work. They had lost faith in the authorities after years of abuse went unadjudicated and began interviewing victims and hearing their stories. We've spoken to over 400 children who were at Shirley Oaks. And where as most investigations follow the victims, we wanted to follow the pedophiles. And we decided that would be the best way. These volunteers, members of this organization, acted as social workers, counselors, and investigators. Now, Raymond and his close colleagues quickly realized that there had been a pattern of behavior. It wasn't simply one or two people who just happened to be... who worked there. They saw that management was conspiring together and even allowing people from off the premises to come in to abuse the kids of Lambeth Children's Homes. SOSA identified through their work 120 different people that had children inside of the Lambeth children's homes or on their campuses. And it wasn't long after this group formed that the members crowded into the Lambeth council chambers and relayed what had happened to them to their faces. After hearing the many stories of abuse, the Lambeth council seemed to be apologetic. The council expressed their deepest sorrows over what had happened, and it was a good first start at reclaiming justice. One of SOSA's first demands of the council was to look into the case of Peter Davis. Peter Davis was LAA2, the boy who had spoken up about what David Hosgood had done to him and the other children in his care. And two years after the trial at the Old Bailey, David was found... in a bathroom with a cord around his neck. And even though there were signs of activity happening before or during his dying, Peter's demise was ruled by authorities as quote, "Death by misadventure." Obviously SOSA, the group, disagreed. They believed that this was murder, reprisal for speaking up about Peter's abuse, or perhaps an effort to silence him from ever speaking up again. Peter had been 15 at the time of his death in 1977. There was never an explanation and his s**t was considerably sudden. As the BBC looked into the death, they found court documents from the time that had been sealed for 100 years in 2003. Senior detective Clive Driscoll believed it would be prudent to reopen the case, as did Chuka Umna, Labour MP for Streetum, but their advice was disregarded. The police acknowledged that the investigation performed so long ago did not meet the standards of a proper investigation as they happen today. Yet, as the police received the request for a new investigation, they ruled that the matter would remain closed in the absence of further new witnesses.
In 2015, on November 27th, Southwest Londoner reported that an independent child sex abuse inquiry would take place across England and Wales. Their objective was to investigate the historic failings of the Lambeth Council. They included the Lambeth children's homes, the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, and politicians in their inquiry. They vowed to shine a light on these criminals who had abused the most vulnerable of people. So there had been several previous reports of the abuse of Lambeth children in the past. but none seemed to amount to much. The reports that the new inquiry would reference spanned from 1985 to 2003, a staggering 28 reports. And though reports began as early as 1985, important Metropolitan Police Service investigations would not begin until 1992. One of these was Operation Bell from 1992 to 1994. This looked into allegations of abuse at the Southvale Assessment Center. It focused on Leslie Paul, but implicated others as well. Operation Pregata ran from 1993 to 1994, following allegations made from a victim. These came to light from a publication called the Harris Report, which identified reports made of Lambeth Housing Directorates creating p***y p***y material involving children, as well as p***y p***y material involving bestiality. Operation Middleton ran from 1998 to 2003 and covered the allegations of abuse spanning from 74 to 94. Of the many cases involved, 16 were sent to Crown Prosecution Service and charges, like we said, were brought against six of the offenders. Operation Trinity ran from 2012 to 2015 and resulted in charging Leslie Paul, Patrick Grant, June Enticott, Brenda Ball, and Phillip Temple. This investigation was announced by British Home Secretary Theresa May on July 7th, 2014. She admitted the serious failings of the system in the cases of these children who were abused, and that the inquiry would fully establish the extent of the crimes committed. While the inquiry began its work, BBC reported on what was being found. SOSA compiled a testimony of allegations they received from victims of Lambeth Children's Home Abusers. The early compiled testimony named "32 P***** Independent Inquiry into Child S***** or IICSA published its final report in 2022, many years after its convening. But in the meantime, they brought many facts to light through their 19 different reports. The formation of this specific inquiry began after investigations in 2012 and 2013 into the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal. This investigation alone revealed widespread abuse, including prominent political and media figures. and inadequate abuse prevention measures by child care organizations. The investigation went through two chairs quickly, or leaders. Baroness Butler-Sloss, who served for only about a week, and then Fiona Wolfe, who served only a month and a half. They were both removed due to fears that they were too close to those being investigated. Dame Lowell Goddard was then named chair, a New Zealand High Court judge with no ties to the United Kingdom. She was a promising appointment, as she couldn't be accused of favoring the criminals in the case because she literally didn't know them. However, she too was removed with little to no explanation in 2016 and replaced by Professor Alexis Jay. What started out as promising quickly went downhill. The affair had a bleak outlook for SOSA, and they would go on to explain these reasons in a letter. The appointment of Alexis Jay caused SOSA to pull away from the IICSA investigation as they didn't believe that she was the right person to chair the inquiry. but they had far more complaints. The SOSA press statement published in 2016 started with this: "Our decision to pull out of the independent inquiry into child s*** abuse should have come with regret, but we are sad to say the only emotion we feel is relief. Now our members do not have to relive their worst nightmares in this stage-managed event, which has now been contrived in such a way that it enables the guilty to wash their dirty hands, whilst the establishment pats itself on the back." Alexis Jay, that new leader, had refused to meet with SOSA since her appointment as chair, and would not listen to the victims themselves. Along with this complaint, SOSA went on to state that the inquiry was little more than a cover-up itself. They explained that nothing the inquiry would accomplish would truly illuminate the government's past of cover-ups, but effectively virtue signal without truly doing any justice. SOSA went on to implicate the Home Office or the British government in the cover-up, saying that over six months they had asked questions about the Home Office's liability in the case and their answers were only ever vague or evasive. SOSA believed that the Home Office was also guilty of the initial cover-up, and the fact that they refused to open a door into their own filthy past was concerning at best. Yet, the inquiry moved on without the support of the victims and SOSA, making their promises to eliminate the crimes committed by Lambeth Council null. The inquiry delved into matters such as the removal of Clive Driscoll, that investigator, from Operation Trawler. But they reported on matters such as corruption, the nature of life at Lambeth's facilities, the accused pedophiles, and mishandling of funds. But they also looked into far more disturbing matters: the deaths that happened in Lambeth Children's Home care.
In 1998, a woman named Helen Kenward tried to look into the records of children being kept in the homes. She was an independent consultant with 37 years of experience, and when she tried to locate files, staff lied to her, hid files, or told her that the files were gone. Helen was a part of an investigation that was taking place during that time and she was constantly faced with staff who denied knowing the people being investigated, even though she knew they knew them. The entirety of Lambeth Council, it seemed, was corrupt. A previous report that the IICSA looked into described Lambeth staff being severely involved with fraud. with up to 500 employed staff members benefiting from illegal activities. Lambeth Council's actions from the 80s to the 90s, specifically their policies, created the perfect conditions for systemic abuse by dishonest employees and p***s. One former counselor, Ms. Anna Tapsell, described everyday corruption such as children's home employees taking food from the children's home out of the mouths of the little ones that resided in these facilities. Yes, employees were stealing food from the impoverished children. The Lambeth Council also obtained leverage in the community, giving free labor to elected members through their direct labor organization. Once a council member accepted an offer of a free repair or the like, they were caught in a blackmail scheme that would threaten their public image should they try to blow any whistles. This corruption went hand in hand with the abuse of the children at Lambeth. An initial investigation into the abuse of children at Ivy House, another Lambeth children's home, was derailed by fraud. Children's home officer Mr. Thomas was instructed to investigate allegations of abuse in the late 1980s. The officer in charge of that Ivy House had been implicated in food fraud with Mr. Thomas, the home officer. And as a result, the investigation was carried out poorly to ensure that both kept their public image clean. This was a clear sign that blackmail was used by the council to keep their illicit acts a secret; they would implicate others in crimes by persuading them to take food or free repairs, and then threaten them if they ever got too close to the child abuse allegations. So it seemed like all these fraud charges and everything like that, these schemes were meant to protect the p****s. I want to make that very clear. Mr. Thomas, that home officer, also presented in a large case related to child abuse, Michael John Carroll. Michael, the p****. party guy, was eventually dismissed in 1991 for fraud. He had been misusing children's home funds for his own personal gain. In a 1992 meeting document, it was discovered that the police had previously refused to investigate Michael for fraud. It was noted as "consistent with Lambeth local practice involving theft against an employer." It is highly disconcerting that Michael wasn't fired for the child abuse allegations that were already swarming against him, but instead, he was fired for fraud. After the IICSA reported on the corruption related to fraud, it also discussed people who wanted to stop the corruption, but but couldn't due to intimidation. Lord Herman Oosley believed that his office at Lambeth Council was bugged at the instigation of one of his staff members. He knew of corruption in Lambeth Council and he wanted to do something about it. Yet, his home and office were broken into soon afterwards and computer records were stolen from him as he attempted to deal with the corruption. Lord Oosley would tell the IICSA that he was getting calls in the middle of the night, that his tires had been slashed. and that his windshield had been smashed as a result of his attempt to handle Lambeth's corruption issues. One person, an extreme right-wing organization member, told Lord Ulysses that his phone number had been plastered on the walls of every public convenience store throughout Lambeth, which is how so many different people had been able to get his phone number, as he was getting hundreds of calls a day at that point. Mr. Henry Gilbey, Amenity Services Director, was also the subject of a serious arson attack when he tried to tackle the corruption of the Lambeth Council. His records were stolen, his office and his home were broken into, and his car was vandalized.
According to section H.5 of the IICSA's final report, when Donald Hosgood was getting arrested, he took out a Freemason Masonic handbook, waving it around to the officers.
On July 28th, 2017, the BBC reported a story named "Hundreds of Sensitive Council Documents Found in London Estate." These documents were found on the Gowden Estate in Clapham. and contain names, addresses, and confidential information pertaining to child protection and rent arrears. SOSA, upon hearing of this discovery, believed the files could contain missing information related to the historic sex abuse investigations that were covered up by the police and government entities. However, Before SOSA could get to the files, Lambeth Council moved them to a secure location for review. Clive Driscoll agreed with SOSA that these documents could prove the fact that the Lambeth Council knew the full extent of the child abuse allegations and that they could prove that they covered up industrial scale abuse within those children's homes. However, these documents were kept guarded by the Lambeth Council, and to this day, they have never been revealed. To this day, nobody knows what happened to those files or what's on them.
Bulic Forsythe was a manager in the housing department of Lambeth Council. He managed around 10 social services around the Lambeth borough. It was Thursday, February 25th, 1993, when at 9:00 AM a neighbor of Bulic's noticed that Mr. Forsyth's alarm had not gone off as normal and his shades were open. Strange for that early in the morning. Clearly, he hadn't gone to work or gotten up. Only 30 minutes later, a colleague of Buelich's called his home and noticed that he didn't pick up. Buelich was never late for work. He was considered to be a model employee. And so, his not coming to work with no explanation was incredibly strange, to say the least. Around the same time that Bulic's concerned colleague called his home phone, a long-time resident of Foster Court noted three men leaving the building in business attire. They were carrying folders and briefcases, and the resident noted that the men looked "official." Then, at 1:55 PM, that same resident noted a strange car parked in the parking lot. with two men inside that he had never seen, but they were not the same men that left the building four hours earlier. At 5:00 PM, a coworker of Bulic's dropped by his apartment to check on him. The curtains were now closed, and she called through the letter slot in the door to see if he was home. No one answered. At 1am on Friday the 26th, another resident of Foster Court was woken up from their sleep by people running from the back of the building. Only an hour later, his upstairs neighbor came down to find smoke billowing in the building, and they called the fire brigade. As the fire brigade responded, it was found that a gas stovetop had been left on but failed to explode. It was discovered that missing from Bulic Forsythe's apartment were documents. But the nature of those documents has never been revealed. Also missing was his silver Rolex. Bulic himself had been found severely beaten, especially in the areas around his head. He had been dead since at least 5pm when his co-worker had dropped by to check on him then yelled through the letter slot.
One coworker, called Person A, allegedly disliked Bulic very deeply. The culture of the housing department was toxic, to say the least, with black workers being marginalized and prevented from advancement, women reporting s**tful harassment, and reports of male staff members showing hardcore p**s to others openly in the office. After Bulic was moved to social services away from housing, person A felt they could quote, still get to him in social services, end quote, and told Bulic something to that effect. Bulic told a friend of his, yet it was never followed up on. But Bulic's integrity was about to get him into more trouble. It is suggested that in the early 1990s, Bulic discovered that the basement of Lambeth Town Hall was being used to make porn. These films, according to a confidant of Bulic's, involved children. This discovery would eventually lead to the Harris Report.
A witness in social services stated that Bulic told her he would come forward about everything he had learned.
When the IICSA created their reports looking into this murder, they papered over the incident with this statement: "The murder of Mr. Forsythe remains unsolved. It was the subject of a recent review by the Metropolitan Police Service, Operation Red Snow, as a result of concerns that there was a connection between Mr. Forsythe's employment at Lambeth Council and his murder. But no evidence of such a connection was found. At the very least, the murder of Mr. Forsythe is likely to have caused concern and fear on the part of staff and counselors."
When the Wadsworth Guardian reported on the story, they reached out to the Metropolitan Police Service, which conducted the investigation into Forsythe's death, dubbed Operation Red Snow. Wadsworth Guardian had to speak to them because no records were publicly available. But concerningly, the police never responded to their inquiry. They got no information about the investigation out of them.
Bulic was brutally killed and his Rolex was discovered missing. Some believe this to be a robbery gone wrong. But then, why And why would the three men have been seen leaving the area with briefcases and folders of documents? The same resident later noted that at almost 2:00 PM near the time Bulic was killed, a white car was parked in the corner of the building and the two men inside were staring at him. This guy had lived there for a very long time at that point, almost 20 years, and he had never seen a car parked in that location before, nor had he ever seen the men in the vehicle. What's more is that person A was Bulic's former superior while at the Department of Housing. And they stated that Bulic had used a Lambeth Council-employed moving company to get into his apartment. That means that the Lambeth Council moving company had a set of his keys, which could have easily been used to make copies.
Because remember, there was no struggle to get into the apartment. There were no broken windows, no broken doors. Allegedly, there was a close relationship between this moving company and the city council. These removal men had nearly unlimited access to the council offices. and it suggested that these same removal men cleared out the evidence of the child p*** film creation in the basement of the town hall. But his murder to this day remains unsolved and uninvestigated. Oh yeah, and according to the government, it has nothing to do with that child p*** ring that he happened to allegedly stumble upon in the basement of a city council building. After all was said and done, the inquiry had found that Lambeth Council had been grossly negligent, The current state of Lambeth Council agrees, and the Strategic Director of Children's Services gave a full apology to the victims at the inquiry's public hearing. The IICSA's closing remarks are that the abuse was widespread and horrific, spanning four decades of crime. Though approximately 705 victims were reported, like we said before, the true number of victims was likely much higher. The inquiry heard from numerous witnesses who described the nature of their abuse. It included indecent assaults and disgusting s**t. The victims also expressed what hardships they had to endure throughout their lives because of their experiences. Many of the victims stated that they had reported their abuses to adults, but they were ignored or investigations launched went nowhere. The IICSA recommended that Lambeth Council should create a comprehensive action plan to respond to issues that would arise after the conclusion of the IICSA. They advised further training for counselors, improved vetting processes, mandates for reporting abuse, and finally, that the Metropolitan Police should reopen the investigation into 15-year-old Peter Davis' death. Section J3 of the Inquiry Report recorded the mass amount of reports and the date ranges they were received by the Metropolitan Police. From 1963 to '88, they received 18 reports, From '89 to '99 they received 63. From 2000 to 2010 they received 109. And from 2011 to 2020 they received 93. The section goes on to paint a bleak portrait with the following information: "529 individuals made allegations against a total of 177 adults employed at or connected with Shirley Oakes. 140 individuals made allegations in respect of South Vale. and 36 individuals made allegations arising from Angel Road against nine adults and further unknown persons. It states that the children who made complaints were stereotyped and ignored, that those who ran away from the children's homes and reported they were abused were forced to return to them, that the police were unsympathetic to their cries of abuse, and that the children reported abusers that were in the police department itself, but they were ignored. So many children had been betrayed, and none received true justice. Raymond Stevenson, above all others, had been denied the justice deserved. Raymond had been a hero in this process, bringing people together and pushing for the law to make things right. Raymond used his exceptional talents as a music producer to highlight the suffering of the victims with a music video called "Don't Touch It." It's mine. The music video spoke about the emotions and experiences of the victims of Lambeth's p*** and what horrors they had to endure because of their past. But Raymond, although he was a victim, was treated unkindly by the council, unsurprisingly. He was even banned from attending Lambeth town hall meetings in 2018 for accusations of scuffles with security and racially abusive comments. Raymond himself denied these allegations, yet he was still banned from the premises. There was one small victory for the victims, yet it may have done more harm than good. The Lambeth redress scheme was opened in January 2018, vowing to provide monetary compensation for the victims of abuse at Lambeth children's homes. The redress scheme paid out at least over 49M pounds in 2020, which equates to roughly 58.5M US dollars. The redress scheme was designed to allow victims to receive compensation without a lengthy court process, thereby lowering the suffering of having to relive the memories. But the redress scheme was yet another nightmare for the victims. the council initially offered insultingly low payments, $10,000 for lifelong suffering at the hands of their government. And sadly, in 2020, Mirror UK reported that the victims suffered further through the redress process, with some being driven to s**t. This was the case for Husna Banu, who we started off this episode talking about, who, because of the redress process, attempted s**t. I had to go through those procedures and start talking about those... deep, dark things that only spoken in childhood. Now I'm an adult and it broke me. It literally broke my every single being and that resulted in a s***t attempt. I ended up in coma. She lived through the attempt, but others did not. Jason McKenzie, 41, could s**t while waiting for his repayment process to end. The average waiting time was 18 months, a year and a half of having to relive the memories of horrific abuse. And his was not the only s**t. others accused the redress scheme of racism as the all-black children's home of Brixton was not included in the project for many of the victims opening back up about the abuses they suffered and then waiting for 18 months for the process to end was too much the darkness of their childhood was brought flooding back and it was too painful for them to bear one victim Judy Jessup stated the scheme only made things worse. In looking at the redress scheme application document, it's clear why. The victims are required to provide details of their assault and the severity, then are told what their abuses are worth in compensation.
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By: Colin Browen...
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