On an unprecedented scale orphans and abused children are being used by so-called care homes as lures to ensnare the powerful for future manipulation of their careers.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has found that more than 700 children in the care of London’s Lambeth Council were sexual and physically taken advantage of for decades as part of a ‘toxic power game.’

In a Tuesday report, the inquiry claims that children in the care of Lambeth Council ‘were subjected to levels of cruelty and sexual abuse that are hard to comprehend’. These horrific and degrading cruelties on minors occurred at three tips of three icebergs: Shirley Oaks, South Vale, and Angell Road, where violence and sexual assault was allowed to flourish.

Since the 1960s, Lambeth Council received complaints of sexual abuse from 705 former residents of the care homes. Incredible – or not, only one senior employee was ever disciplined by the council.

‘The report finds that the true scale of the sexual abuse against children in Lambeth’s care will never be known. It is certain to be significantly higher than is formally recorded,’ declared the inquiry.’

Following the revelation that a child who was found dead at Shirley Oaks in 1977 had complained about sexual abuse in the care home, the inquiry is now calling on the Metropolitan Police to consider whether a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death should be launched.

No one is holding their breath as experience and history suggest that the police themselves were taking advantage of the supply of hush-hush children of bother genders.

Inquiry Chairwoman Alexis Jay, who led the similar 2014 investigation into Rotherham child sexual abuse (ignored by the police), which found at least 1,400 victims and the sadism and sexual depravities implicated members of the council. The report says the children in Lambeth ’became pawns in a toxic power game’ between ’the Council and central government.’

‘There was a vicious and regressive culture, for which a succession of leading elected members was mainly responsible, aided, and abetted in some instances by self-serving senior officials,’ Jay declared, adding that the culture ’contributed to allowing children in their care to suffer the most horrendous sexual abuse.’

Now there’s the usual mantras: ‘Lessons will be learnt’ and Lambeth Council formally apologised on Tuesday for its failure to protect vulnerable children, with council leader Claire Holland calling the report ‘deeply shocking’ (that is it).

Past crimes apply only to geriatric Germans who served as attendants at internment camps in a war that ended 76-years ago. Holland argued that while the council accepts its ’inexcusable failings’ and that it ’failed so many,’ there is a ’big difference between the council of the past with Lambeth of today,’ which is a ’different, more child-focused and positive place for young people.’

The council also promoted its redress scheme, which allows victims of the abuse to apply for financial compensation and free counseling. Source