Submissions to Theresa May’s child sex abuse inquiry accidentally deleted
More improbable mistakes by the government inquiry set up to investigate paedophile offences.
This simply is not good enough.
Who was responsible for this mistake (if that’s what it was)?
Are they still working on this inquiry? If so, why?
How many more such mistakes are victims of child abuse likely to have to endure?
Information provided by alleged child abuse victims to the overarching inquiry set up by Theresa May has been deleted due to a blunder, it has emerged.
Submissions sent through an online form to the inquiry between 14 September and 2 October were “instantly and permanently deleted” on Thursday before they reached staff.
The information had been sent to the “share your experience” section of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) website, set up for victims and survivors wanting to share their experiences with officials working on the probe.
Those who provided details between the two dates have now been asked to resubmit their information. The inquiry apologised for the incident and stressed that no material was at risk of disclosure.
Source: Submissions to Theresa May’s child sex abuse inquiry accidentally deleted | Society | The Guardian
Note that the government’s explanation said nothing about the information having been deleted due to human error. It states: “Due to a change in our website address to http://www.iicsa.org.uk on 14 September, any information submitted to the Inquiry between 14 September and 2 October through the online form on the Share your experience page of our website, was instantly and permanently deleted before it reached our engagement team.
“We are very sorry for any inconvenience or distress this will cause and would like to reassure you that no information was put at risk of disclosure or unauthorised access.”
Not good enough.
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“Accidentally” – really?
The inquiry is not expected to report before 2020 at the very earliest, by which time more Tory abusers will probably be dead or too senile / demented to stand trial.
The Kiwi female must make way immediately for someone responsible for their actions.
I don’t think it had anything to do with her. I think somebody lower down the hierarchy sabotaged this particular aspect of the inquiry.
Add this to the file “lost” by Leon Brittan, all the other “lost” evidence, two prominent members of the establishment appointed by May to, er, investigate the prominent members of the establishment, all the other cover-ups over the decade, and now the Tory attacks on Tom Watson paint a very poor picture.
“Accidentally”. Pull the other one.
My thoughts exactly.
Tracie Wayling on the FB page makes some very good points:
“Are they trying to say that Gov don’t have server back ups? Outrageous. How many who need to resubmit will even hear that they need to resubmit?”
I don’t follow the logic, just because you have switched your web address it does not make the previous server disappear?
Any responsible organisation would be backing these servers up and so even if they decommissioned the server there will always be a backup!
Conveniente like Liam Britton-When is this all going to come out?
“Submissions sent through an online form to the inquiry between 14 September and 2 October were “instantly and permanently deleted” on Thursday before they reached staff.”
What a load of crap, give me the server hard drive it was all on and I bet I can recover the info, unless it has been deleted intentionally deleted so it cannot be recovered and this would have to be intentional :(