{"id":679987,"date":"2026-05-19T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679987\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:41:09","slug":"uk-police-investigate-allegations-of-child-sex-abuse-dating-back-to-1980s-after-epstein-file-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679987\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police investigate allegations of child sex abuse dating back to 1980s after Epstein file release"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FILE – This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)<\/p>\n

By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tMay 19, 2026 | 8:08 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Police in the UK say they are investigating two allegations of decades-old child sex abuse after looking into potential crimes revealed in documents from the U.S. Justice Department\u2019s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police in Surrey, the county immediately southwest of London, said in a statement Tuesday that they are investigating two separate allegations. One relates to locations in Surrey and Berkshire in the mid-1990s to 2000. The other relates to the mid- to late 1980s in West Surrey.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take all reports of sexual offending seriously and will work to identify any reasonable lines of enquiry to verify information or establish corroborating evidence,\u2019\u2019 police said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE – This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-679987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}