This must be the 'Class' the british keep talking about Americans not having...they can keep it.Pedophilia in Britain ‘woven into the fabric of society’ – Theresa Mayhttp://rt.com/tags/children/, rt.com/tags/crime/ As the UK has launched a new-judge led inquiry panelto investigate a pedophile ring operated in 1980s, the Home Secretarywarns the allegations are just a “tip of an iceberg” and the problem is“woven, covertly, into the fabric of our society.”Following a spate of allegations concerning the abuse of childrenby adults, many of who abused their positions of power andstatus, Home Secretary Theresa May said Britons still do notappreciate the “true scale of that abuse.”Writing in the Telegraph, May www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11471282/Theresa-May-C that the investigation into predatorsof children will “lead into our schools and hospitals, ourchurches, our youth clubs and many other institutions that shouldhave been places of safety…”Following Thursday’s announcement of a four-person panel toinvestigate the criminal activities against minors, May saidJustice Lowell Goddard would be empowered to “compelwitnesses and the removal of any cut-off date from the Terms ofReference” allowing Goddard to track the evidence “wherever ittakes her.”The original inquiry, which was delayed after two chairs wereforced to stand down, was set up to investigate allegations of apedophile sex ring made by the now deceased Conservative MPGeoffrey Dickens, operating in Westminster during the 1980s.Read morehttp://rt.com/news/225807-anonymous-operation-against-pedophiles/May said she had personally met with young survivors andunderstood that their lives would be so much harder due to the“pain and distrust that had become a part of them.”May wrote: “In my discussions with older victims andsurvivors and their representatives, I began to realize how abuseis woven, covertly, into the fabric of our society.”She then relayed a meeting she had with one of the victims ofpast abuse, who told her: “Get this inquiry right and it willbe like a stick of Blackpool rock. You will see abuse goingthrough every level of society.”“I fear she is right. I have said before and I shall sayagain, that what we have seen so far is only the tip of theiceberg,” May said.Aside from public institutions, the probe may also lead to thehighest levels of British society.Following allegations that British celebrity and former BBCpresenter Jimmy Savile had violated hundreds of children andadults over the span of his lengthy career ("Giving Victims aVoice" organization reported that over 400 people had filedcomplaints against Savile), allegations of a Westminsterpedophile ring possibly involving many well-known MPs havesurfaced.Read morehttp://rt.com/uk/170672-uk-politicians-pedophile-ring/In July 2014 Peter Mckelvie, a whistleblower who kicked off UKpolice pedophile probe Operation Fernbridge, disclosed a listcompiled by police of current and former politicians suspected ofparticipating in the child sex abuse.He revealed that as many as 40 British MPs and peers either knewabout or took part in the Westminster “pedophile ring.”Mckelvie, who spent more than 20 years compiling evidence ofalleged child abuse by people in authority claimed there wasenough evidence to arrest at least one senior politician, theDaily Telegraph reported in July 2014.“I truly believe it represents a once-in-a-generationopportunity and that once its work is done, we will never look atsociety in the same way again,” May wrote.READ MORE: Cover up? Review of Home Office handling of Westminsterchild sex allegations slammedThe Home Secretary said: “Where there is evidence a personhas abused their position – no matter how high or how low thatposition – it will be passed to the police to investigate. So ifthere has been a cover-up, we will uncover it.”Yet, she questions why some people don’t understand the need foran inquiry. “What’s the point?” they say. “It’s so long agoand we know it all now. Leave it in the past where itbelongs.”Meanwhile, hundreds of registered sex offenders have gone missingin the UK.A Freedom of Information request by the Press Association hasrevealed that the whereabouts of 396 convicted offenders areunknown to police. Some have been rt.com/uk/239245-paedophiles-missing-uk-police/ for over a decade.