Care Home Children Let Down by Police and the State, Janner Abuse Inquiry Finds

Care Home Children Let Down by Police and the State, Janner Abuse Inquiry Finds
Lord Janner arrives back at home in London, after appearing at Westminster Magistrates Court over 22 historic child sex abuse charges, on Aug. 14, 2015. Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
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Children who reported being sexually abused by the late Labour grandee Lord Janner were “let down by institutional failings,” a damning inquiry into police, prosecution, and social services responses to their allegations has concluded.

Leicestershire Police officers investigating decades of abuse claims against Lord Janner regularly “did not look beyond the often troubled backgrounds” of the alleged victims, who said they were abused in children’s homes in the county between the early 1960s and the late 1980s.