22/08/2013

Pair Arrested Over North Wales Care Homes Abuse

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of indecent assault at children's homes in North Wales.

Officers linked to Operation Pallial, which is investigating historic abuse, arrested a man and a woman in Seaford, East Sussex.

The offences are claimed to have been committed between 1975 and 1976 to an 11-year-old boy.

The pair, aged 60 and 63, have been taken to a police station in Essex to be questioned.

The arrests are the sixth and seventh in the inquiry. One person has already been charged.

(CD/JP)

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