Police ‘better equipped to deal with abuse inquiries’
Saturday 19th June 2010, 2:58PM BST.
Detective Inspector Alison Fossey
THE police have never been better equipped to deal with child abuse allegations, according to a leading member of the force’s historical child abuse investigation team.
Detective Inspector Alison Fossey has said that the way police handle child abuse cases had ‘improved significantly’ since the 1980s.
She made her comments to reassure Islanders after a 62-year-old paedophile was this week jailed for 12 years.
Leonard Miles Vandenborn had sexually abused two girls, now adults, for more than a decade in the 1970s and 1980s.
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