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Child sexual abuse campaigners have criticised disgraced ex-BBC News presenter Huw Edwards for his “inappropriate and disrespectful” choice to launch a blog, with one calling it a “staggering lack of awareness”.<\/b><\/p>\n

In 2024, Edwards admitted to accessing 41 images of children<\/a>, including seven of the most serious type, and was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, he launched a Substack blog offering “commentary and analysis” on issues such as current affairs and mental health.<\/p>\n

But Edwards has been criticised by some for “lacking remorse”.<\/p>\n

Responding to the criticism, Edwards said “those exercised by the piece might have missed the intent expressed” on the blog.<\/p>\n

Edwards, who was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years, told the BBC he had expressed “sincere regret and remorse” in court in 2024, and in a public statement issued in March.<\/p>\n

Emma Jane Taylor, a campaigner and founder of grassroots charity Project 90-10, said: “To think he can simply return to a public platform and be received as though nothing has happened shows a staggering lack of awareness.”<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old, who is a survivor of child sexual abuse, works full time in the fitness and wellbeing sector and runs the organisation on a voluntary basis because she believes there is a need for “better awareness, better safeguarding, and better training”.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Edwards’ blog, she said: “I am deeply frustrated by this. Because of my personal trauma, I decided to speak out in my 40s. So many people are so afraid to have this conversation, so we don’t.<\/p>\n

“If it was the bloke next door, everyone would be up in arms about it. And I don’t doubt people will be, but some will say he deserves a second chance.<\/p>\n

“He is on the sex offenders’ register \u2013 that should not entitle him to a blog. We don’t want to hear from you, Huw,” she said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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