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8/23/2025, 8:19:59 AM
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8/23/2025, 8:19:59 AM
No.513769486
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British Army paid £8,000,000 tax money to children raped by soldiers, leaks reveal
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The Ministry of Defence has spent more than £8m compensating survivors of historic child sex abuse committed by military personnel or on military bases since 2017, leaked information reveals.
A Freedom of Information request submitted by the website OpenDemocracy revealed that 155 civil claims have been successfully brought against the MoD for non-recent child sex offences in the past eight years.
On average, each claim led to a survivor receiving a taxpayer-funded payout of £52,000.
“We should bear in mind that the MoD will not pay out compensation unless there was a finding of fault or there was a real risk that a court would find it liable for the acts of its personnel,” Al-Nahhas said. “In these types of cases, this will often include the failure to take reasonable steps to protect the welfare of children and/or vet people in positions of authority.”
The data reveals that the MoD paid out £16,000 in 2017, increasing to a high of £2.5m in 2023. In 2019, the government launched the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse and the Truth Project to give survivors of sexual abuse at public institutions a platform to tell their stories and share them with the relevant police force if they wish.
Responding to the findings, Andrew Lord, a partner at human rights law firm Leigh Day, said: “We know that abuse of children occurs in all walks of life, but it is nevertheless shocking to see the true scale of complaints being brought against the Ministry of Defence.”
In reality, far more service members were likely tried for child sexual offences during this time. Court martials for crimes such as rape or sexual assault do not record the age of the victim, meaning we were able only to look at offences that specifically include the word “child” or “children”.
An MoD spokesperson told openDemocracy: “Unacceptable and criminal behaviour has absolutely no place in our Armed Forces.”
The Ministry of Defence has spent more than £8m compensating survivors of historic child sex abuse committed by military personnel or on military bases since 2017, leaked information reveals.
A Freedom of Information request submitted by the website OpenDemocracy revealed that 155 civil claims have been successfully brought against the MoD for non-recent child sex offences in the past eight years.
On average, each claim led to a survivor receiving a taxpayer-funded payout of £52,000.
“We should bear in mind that the MoD will not pay out compensation unless there was a finding of fault or there was a real risk that a court would find it liable for the acts of its personnel,” Al-Nahhas said. “In these types of cases, this will often include the failure to take reasonable steps to protect the welfare of children and/or vet people in positions of authority.”
The data reveals that the MoD paid out £16,000 in 2017, increasing to a high of £2.5m in 2023. In 2019, the government launched the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse and the Truth Project to give survivors of sexual abuse at public institutions a platform to tell their stories and share them with the relevant police force if they wish.
Responding to the findings, Andrew Lord, a partner at human rights law firm Leigh Day, said: “We know that abuse of children occurs in all walks of life, but it is nevertheless shocking to see the true scale of complaints being brought against the Ministry of Defence.”
In reality, far more service members were likely tried for child sexual offences during this time. Court martials for crimes such as rape or sexual assault do not record the age of the victim, meaning we were able only to look at offences that specifically include the word “child” or “children”.
An MoD spokesperson told openDemocracy: “Unacceptable and criminal behaviour has absolutely no place in our Armed Forces.”
