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The inquiry heard that hundreds of children were subjected to prolonged sexual, physical, and racial abuse and that paedophiles targeted the Shirley Oaks Children’s home campus in Croydon, London which could house up to 350 children until its closure in 1983.

Victims were "drugged, tortured and sexually assaulted" by "very many paedophiles", the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse was told.

Council staff “put vulnerable children in the path” of sex offenders, who infiltrated children’s homes and foster care, with “devastating, life-long consequences for their victims”, this damning report into decades of abuse has found.

Employees in the south London borough of Lambeth “treated children in care as if they were worthless” and appeared to de ...