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  • Samantha Morton reveals sexual abuse as child in residential care | The Guardian
    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/12/samantha-morton-reveals-sexual-abuse-child-residential-care

    The Bafta- and Golden Globe-winning actor Samantha Morton, who spent much of her childhood in a succession of children’s homes in Nottingham, has revealed for the first time that she was sexually abused by residential care workers and said she believes abuse was “rife” within the city’s children’s services.
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    The actor, 37, who has twice been nominated for an Oscar,and starred in the blockbuster Minority Report alongside Tom Cruise, was first taken into care as a baby and spent the rest of her childhood in and out of foster care and children’s homes. She had told social workers about “all sorts of sexual abuse that happened to me from a very, very young age”, she said, but no action had ever been taken. She described one incident when she was 13 when two male members of staff at the Redtiles home came into her bedroom at night, removed her nightclothes and abused her. She was initially embarrassed but eventually told social workers, who did nothing. “There was no support, no offer of counselling, no wanting to delve deeper ... Maybe they just assumed I had been abused already, or was being, anyway.” She estimates that 90% of her friends in the home had been sexually abused, though not all by staff.

    A few weeks later Morton told her mother, who took her to a local police station. Again, no further action was taken.
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    Asked what she believed should change, Morton called for an end to the privatisation of children’s services, higher standards for residential care workers , a reversal of cuts to the care system and a legal requirement for people in authority to report abuse when they suspect it.