Study finds nine UK fathers accused of child sexual abuse given legal access to their alleged victims

[Jim Burton]

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-uk-father ... exual.html

Nine fathers were given legal access by private family court law proceedings (PLP) to the children they were accused of sexually abusing, according to a qualitative study.

The paper, published in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, was carried out by University of Manchester researchers in partnership with members of SHERA Research Group and The Survivor Family Network.

It is based on the experience of 45 women from across England in PLP who, along with some of their children, accused the men of abuse, including child sexual abuse (CSA) in nine cases.