Shocking scale of sexual abuse at UK boarding schools

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An ITV documentary has revealed the true extent of sexual abuse at the UK’s boarding schools, with hundreds of people accused of carrying out sexual attacks in recent years and dozens of ongoing police investigations.

In the Exposure programme to be broadcast on Monday, journalist and author Alex Renton - who was sexually abused as an eight-year-old by his teacher at one of the country’s top boarding schools - investigates the private schools that appeared willing to disregard children’s safety, with some failing to take action against predatory paedophiles who groomed and assaulted young boarders repeatedly - sometimes getting away with it for decades.

Despite the years that have passed since Alex’s time at school, the reporting of abuse allegations is still not legally mandatory at all schools in the UK.

ITV’s Exposure made a Freedom of Information request to every police force in the UK and 24 responded. The results showed:

• Since 2012, 425 people have been accused of carrying out sexual attacks at UK boarding schools
• Not every force could provide further details but at least 160 people have been charged so far.
• At least 171 of the total number were accused of historical abuse.
• Since 2012 at least 125 people have been accused by children of recent sex attacks at boarding schools.
• There are at least 31 ongoing investigations.
• Just over half of the forces responded, meaning the total figure is likely to be far higher.

Boarding schools are among the most influential institutions in Britain – responsible for educating many politicians, judges and business leaders and 75% of Britain’s prime ministers. An estimated one million people in Britain today went to boarding school and approximately 75,000 children still board today in around 480 state and independent boarding schools.

In the programme, a number of abuse survivors are interviewed, exposing the systemic failures that allowed paedophiles to go unpunished, in some cases permitting them to continue teaching elsewhere in the private and the state sector, preying on more vulnerable children.

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I always suspected boarding schools were a little dodgy but this revelation is disgusting

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I always suspected boarding schools were a little dodgy but this revelation is disgusting

Shouldn't be shocked, this happens all over the world at boarding schools, we had one shut down here(sadly, only temporarily) in Sweden due to the frequency of abuse taking place there.

They're basically a breeding ground for hazing by students and abuse by the teachers.

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Isn't it a cliche that boarding schools are rampant with sex abuse?

We only send problem kids to boarding schools here, Trump went to one.

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Revolting.

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This is why its unspurising that our political class are all cunts. Thier parents abandon them to boarding school system because they cant be bothered to raise them, they get abused and hazed in a wierd bubble, and then you end up with a bunch of broken sociapaths.

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This is why its unspurising that our political class are all cunts. Thier parents abandon them to boarding school system because they cant be bothered to raise them, they get abused and hazed in a wierd bubble, and then you end up with a bunch of broken sociapaths.

Pretty much unfortunately

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And as a bonus, kids that are abused ofte grow up to be abusers themselves too, which increases the problem even more.

I do find it interesting that - and maybe this is because of biased reporting - almost every time you hear about large scale abuse of children, it's in the UK.

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And as a bonus, kids that are abused ofte grow up to be abusers themselves too, which increases the problem even more.

I do find it interesting that - and maybe this is because of biased reporting - almost every time you hear about large scale abuse of children, it's in the UK.

It's more because the UK is pulling its finger out and uprooting these sickos that were once over-looked. Publicly publishing them is important to reassure people that such stories will no longer be covered up if that makes sense