Year after year, we hear stories of the abuse of children, whether it be within families or on a more widespread and organised basis. Every year we are also told, by those in authority, that they didn't know, they did what they could, they will learn lessons, it won't happen again and so on. Every year, it happens again.
Today we've heard of the organised and long term abuse of children in the town of Rotherham. It seems that some 1,400 children are known to have been abused over the period from 1997 to 2013; once again, we've heard the same old platitudes from the 'experts' and others in authority. The local Police and Crime Commissioner, who was the local councillor with specific responsibility for children's services between 2005 and 2010, has refused calls for him to resign from his current post, saying that, in effect, he has no responsibility and that fault lies only with others who failed to tell him what was happening.
In the wake of the revelations about Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris and others, this is yet another tale of the failures of social services, the police and local councils to deal with the most shocking of offences. In this case, it seems that the police ignored complaints from victims while council officials covered things up, more fearful for their jobs than for the abused. It also seems that much of the abuse was carried out by organised gangs of men of Pakistani origin and that a fear of being labelled as 'racist' was a prime concern for those in authority who did nothing.
It is surely a dreadful indictment of our country that we have sunk to such a level. No one dares move for fear of being accused of being 'racist', 'sexist', homophobic, etc., etc. We have become so determined to prize the mythical 'equality' above all that we shy away from treating everyone the same; in fact, we go out of our way to make special exceptions for those of supposed 'minority' or 'disadvantaged' groups and allow them to, literally, get away with murder.
I don't like what is happening to my country and I especially don't like the vast influx of foreigners who don't share my language or culture, but I am not a racist. I also don't much like the actions of the more extrovert members of the homosexual 'community', but that does not make me homophobic. Reporting criminal acts by foreigners, homosexuals or women doesn't make me guilty of an '-ism' or a phobia either, and yet senior figures in Rotherham and elsewhere have been so afraid that they did nothing in the face of the blatant and rampant abuse of children.
When will this sorry little country of ours come to its senses ?
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