Paedophile are supreme manipulators. They manipulate everyone in order to get access to children and to get away with it. They may well come across as nice caring men and go to some trouble to present themselves as pillars of the community whilst carry out vile abuse behind the scenes.
This article by Christian Wolmar is an excellent examination of the extent to which predatory males will seek & maintain positions where they can abuse children without challenge. The focus here is of males who held very senior positions in Social Work & worked in children's homes.
It will always be the most vulnerable who will be targetted first by predators.
It also includes a useful record of how PIE (paedophile information exchange) integrated itself into social justice movements of the times & the eventual prosecution of some key members.
'Forgotten Children – the background to the children’s homes scandals'
(extract)
"In the 1970s and 1980s, an epidemic of abuse swept through Britain’s children’s homes. More than 100 care workers have already been convicted; more than 1,000 await trial. But no one has yet explained how such a grotesque scandal could have come about. Christian Wolmar has spent two years trying to do so. Here are some of his conclusions.
The scandal that unfolded in British children’s homes in the 1980s and 1990s is, on the face of it, inexplicable. A modern western nation with a tradition of caring for the weak – the birthplace of the welfare state – houses thousands of children in residential homes where they end up battered and sexually abused.
It is, according to a government minister in the Lords, “the greatest scandal of the 20th century”. Unfortunately, the minister’s view has not found much echo in society at large. The story has been largely ignored by the press. It has, too, been the subject of little academic research, despite the obvious need for a greater understanding. Successive governments have commissioned reports into particular incidents, but most of these have been at a local level. Yet the importance of understanding the wider history of these scandals cannot be overstated, for without such understanding, it is impossible to frame a policy to tackle the problem." (continues)
www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2000/10/forgotten-children-the-background-to-the-childrens-homes-scandals/
Ht Dr Andrew Thorne (Qualified SW and Probation Officer) who has recently been reported to Social Work England by TRAs for discussing Safeguarding risks in trans inclusive/affirmation policies.
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