Police action on historic child abuse is STILL too little, and much, much too late
Despair: too many paedoophiles have escaped justice because police were not interested in investigating. And there are serious questions to be asked about their reasons.
I know at least one person who is a victim of historic child sexual abuse and while she may applaud the justice others are getting, it is far too late for her.
She tried to get her local police force to investigate and convict her abuser – and they rejected her allegations out-of-hand.
She believes this is because the perpetrator was a police informant and that officers of the force in question had known about his crimes but were content to ignore them.
As the victim, the suffered extreme mental ill-health including a nervous breakdown. It has taken decades for her to reach a point where she can conduct even the semblance of a normal life.
And the effect on her has meant there has been an effect on her own children too.
Her abuser is now extremely old and infirm. It is doubtful he would understand what was going on if police launched an investigation now.
And it is extremely unlikely that she would want to relive the hell that he made of her life. It would be risking a relapse into mental illness, and for a negligible return.
So the belated police interest in such matters, known as Operation Hydrant, will always be too little, and far too late.
But that doesn’t make it pointless, by any stretch of the imagination. Look at the figures and you’ll see the truth of it.
That’s why I agree that Boris Johnson should be pilloried for his suggestion that inquiries into non-recent sexual abuse were “spaffing money up the wall”.
Also, his choice of words – and remember, this is a journalist; he knew what he was doing – was extremely offensive.
And it shows where his priorities lie.
They lie in hiding what happened – in covering up the extent of historic paedophile abuse in the UK.
Why?
Let’s not forget that his immediate forerunner as prime minister, Theresa May, managed to mislay a file of paedophile allegations against more than 100 people.
Is this attitude from the Tories an attempt to protect people who used positions of power to abuse children?
What other reason would they have?
I ask merely for information.
Source: Police uncovering ‘epidemic of child abuse’ in 1970s and 80s | UK news | The Guardian
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