Thank you Amalfi and Bore.
Many many years ago my dad was a senior detective tasked with investigating a murder in a children’s home in North London. The murder itself was solved - two senior staff competing over the affections of one of the children, using some interesting CSI type stuff involving ambient and body temperatures. However when he asked to then investigate the perverted and criminal behaviour of some of the staff and the effective rape of vulnerable children, he was forbidden, and understood that there political influences at work. My dad was so so angry and upset. I did not really understand at the time though more recent recent revelations suggest he was right to have been appalled.
I have found all of this surprisingly triggering, even though it was my dad’s, not my issue.
Children and their protection must come first. All of this is awful, but how dare the GP not take a firm stand, how dare the Guardian or BBC fail to provide professional and unbiased reporting, how dare people whose perceived role is to advise/influence the government or other organisations minimise the crime and fail to recognise its severity, and most of all how dare anyone put the poor girl at risk and add to her distress by allowing her to be identified.
FFS. Vulnerable children come first.