Peter Wilby - warning CSA

Most people still don't have a clue how widespread and embedded into powerful institutions this is.

This is the Daily Mail's story on the subject. Obviously they have their own bias, but based on the Guardian's actions and the article in the OP it does seem that he was systematically and unsurprisingly minimising the risk of child abusers and defending the right to privacy of the accused and those released from jail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12446779/amp/Peter-Wilbys-paedophile-editor-Guardian-New-Statesman-campaign-PROTECT-child-abusers-GUY-ADAMS-Left-wing-columns.html

That is so so sad and it makes me so angry. I think if people could really grasp just how prolific the issues of child sexual abuse are there would finally be some scope to address it. So so so many children are abused by people who should care for them. So many children are abused to fill the boots of the taboo fantasy life of creeps. Families and organisations close ranks when abuse comes out and act to prophecy abusers more often than not.

There is more than a paedophile on every corner. In Ireland we have an abuse survivor organisation called 1 in 4 because at best estimate that is how many children they believe in the population have experienced sexual abuse. That suggests that 25% of all children experience sexual abuse. You see 4 children and those stats mean that 1 out of them is likely to be sexually abused during childhood. I’ve read statistics that say it is 33% of girls. When are people going to wake up to the scale of abusers that need to be out there for those kinds of numbers to exist.

Inter generational trauma means that sexual abuse gets passed down through generations of children as much or more than eye colour yet every instance of it is reported as rare as the rarest of diamonds rather than endemic and prolific common behaviour that needs to be addressed head on through completely cracking down on it and enormously investing in education.

"The Guardian have belatedly taken down the eight columns (out of hundreds - so too many but not a proportion that would automatically wave red flags) in which he argued that we're all making too much of a fuss about paedophiles".

Is this true? As that's what we're seeing now - and in significant numbers - a number of men (and some women) arguing that women talking about safeguarding children are using transphobic dogwhistles.

Just in the interests of accuracy, he was an editor of the Independent on Sunday, not the Guardian. He was a columnist for the Guardian.

The Guardian have belatedly taken down the eight columns (out of hundreds - so too many but not a proportion that would automatically wave red flags) in which he argued that we're all making too much of a fuss about paedophiles.

The Independent don't seem to have said anything at all.