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In Canada there is no statue of limitations for indictable offenses (like child abuse), and since the Canadian system is based on the British system it is probably the same. In any case if it is possible that the abuse is still occuring than time frame is probably irrelevent when reporting. Any allegations of abuse of a minor, current or in the past (when I was 17, I told my T, and she had to report, even though it was over years before) will result in a report to Child Protective Services and the police who will decide what to do. At that point it won't be your responsability anymore.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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