Ms Woodhouse has claimed the party’s silence on the issue has “broken the confidence of the victims” as she backed Labour’s calls for an investigation into how they tackled the issues.
Khan was jailed for 18 months earlier this week after being convicted of the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy in 2008.
The victim told the court he was not “taken very seriously” when he made the accusation to the Tory press office days before Khan was elected to represent the West Yorkshire seat in 2019.
Ms Woodhouse, who survived years of sexual abuse, said: “How can a major political party take a call from a victim who says he had been abused as a child, do nothing and then allow him to be MP?
“It is heartbreaking and has broken the trust of survivors like me.”
“Their cavalier refusal to answer serious questions about this has left me questioning what they have to hide.”
“They must launch an independent investigation into this scandal.”
Ms Woodhouse has previously said she was “disgusted” to discover she had worked with Khan reviewing a Home Office document on child exploitation.
Last month Sheffield MP and shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh wrote to Tory party chairman Oliver Dowden to ask what the party knew and when about the allegations.
Having received no reply to the letter, Ms Haigh has not said that “the failure to answer basic questions has given the impression of a cover-up”.
“Khan’s victim told the Conservatives about the disgusting sexual abuse and they did nothing.”
“How is it possible that they have put the victims in this position and left the people of Wakefield without a voice?”
Ms Haigh added: “They must launch an independent investigation into their sickening inaction and into the Conservative Party’s processes for dealing with reports of serious sexual assault so that no victim is ever in this position again.”
Southwark Crown Court heard how Khan forced the then-teenager to drink gin and tonic and asked him to watch pornography before the attack on a house in Staffordshire after a party in January 2008.
The victim, who cannot be identified, said she felt “scared, vulnerable, numb, shocked and shocked” after Khan, then 34, touched her feet and legs, getting within “a hair” of her private parts. , while heading to sleep in a top bunk.
Khan had the whip suspended in 2021 when the allegations first made headlines, and he was expelled from the Conservative Party last month following his conviction.
Khan has maintained his innocence and has said he will appeal the conviction.
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab refused to endorse such an investigation when asked in the House of Commons yesterday.
A Conservative Party spokesman said: “We have found no record of such a complaint.”
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Source: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
This notice was published: 2022-05-24 21:05:10
