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Ministry of Defence pays out 2 million to settle cadets' sex abuse claims
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The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers), January 1, 2015
Posted: January 4th, 2015
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11315528/Minist...

The Ministry of Defence has paid out more than 2 million in out-of-court settlements in the last three years as a result of claims that young cadets were sexually abused. The cases includes allegations that teenage boys performed ritual sex acts on younger cadets, and a cadet who was raped by an instructor and gave birth to her abusers child. Some of the settlements are understood to relate to historic abuse, perpetrated against adults when they were children. Others relate to abuse carried out in recent years. [One] settlement involved a teenage girl who was sexually abused by her adult cadet instructor while she was a cadet under his charge. Eventually she gave birth to her abusers child, leading to her suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic depression. The MoD admitted liability at an early stage and settled the claim for 210,000. Among the settlements made in 2012, four people made a successful claim for 900,000 after alleging they were abused when they were young members of the Army Cadets in Harborne, Birmingham. An MoD spokesperson said: We take any allegation of abuse extremely seriously. All adult volunteers undergo enhanced criminal record checks and are made fully aware of their responsibility to protect children from harm.

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