Over 40 survivors sue authorities over ‘abuse’ in children’s home run like a ‘cult’
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More than 40 former residents of a children’s home run by a controversial “cult” are suing the authorities for allegedly putting them in the care of abusers.
The Red House in Buxton, Norfolk, took in hundreds of children over 14 years until it was finally shut down a decade after the alarm was first raised. It was owned by the Tvind School Cooperative, a controversial left-wing group which has been likened to a cult, that was founded in Denmark in the late 1960s. Norfolk Police have told the Mirror that they first investigated allegations of abuse at the home in 1988.
A Sky News investigation has found that in 1990 the social services watchdog wrote to local authorities warning them not to send children to the home. It listed allegations including sexual assault by a teacher, physical abuse and a gang rape by three pupils. A report made by Norfolk County Council four years later showed they were aware of claims that 20 children had been abused. But the home remained open until 1998.
Daniel Lemberger Cooper of Imran Khan and Partners, the law firm representing the former residents, said: “There was opportunity after opportunity for the authorities to stop the abuse. But it was – shockingly – allowed to carry on. Why that was, and who was responsible is precisely why my clients are bringing this legal action.It is only if this occurs that they might get some semblance of justice and a measure of closure.”
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