An editorial earlier this month in The Tablet puts a bottom line to child sexual abuse, while calling for a government inquiry in Britain similar to that taking place currently in Australia. Click here to read the whole editorial.
Pedophiles continue targeting young people because institutions allow them to do so. Sometimes those institutions were the ones to which the criminals belonged – the Catholic Church, the Church of England, the BBC – and which failed to act because those in charge were more concerned with the institutions’ reputations and the impact of scandal than with the pain of a child.” Editorial in The Table, May 18, 2013