Former child migrant lifts lid on UK’s ‘biggest sex abuse scandal’

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Two years later at Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in London, former prime minister Gordon Brown would call child migration “government-induced trafficking” that was a “bigger sex scandal” than Jimmy Savile. open image in gallery A new book sheds further light on Britain’s child migration scheme, which former prime minister Gordon Brown called ‘government-induced trafficking’ Prior to the IICSA in 2017, the UK Fairbridge Society had repeatedly denied knowledge of any allegations of abuse at its child migrant institutions. open image in gallery Former prime minister Gordon Brown would call child migration “government-induced trafficking” that was a “bigger sex scandal” than Jimmy Savile Mr Hill, who had also been present at the public hearing, recalled the former PM had been deeply annoyed because “he wasn’t told the truth in 2010 about what the British Government knew”. Children who are sexually abused quite often never, ever recover David Hill Despite the 100 million in Australian dollars that was eventually paid out to the surviving “Fairbridge kids”, the tragic realisation Mr Hill had during “this whole horrible process” was that no amount of compensation can ever “do justice” to a person who was abused as child.