Sexual Assault On Young Offenders

EDM number 884 in 1992-93, proposed by John Heppell on 18/11/1992.

That this House is concerned that a number of young offenders who have committed suicide have been found on examination to have been sexually assaulted; finds totally unacceptable the view expressed by the Governor of Feltham Young Offenders Institute, J. Witty, that a bunch of lads grabbing hold of someone and shoving something up his rectum is not sexual assault but bullying; therefore calls on the Home Secretary to issue instructions to governors of young offenders institutions that this form of sexual assault must be treated as the serious crime it is.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.