Friday, May 27, 2005

'Every parent's nightmare' / spiked-online, 24 May 2005

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAB64.htm
Jennie Bristow
"This story illuminates some disturbing trends in the treatment of rape claims by the police, by the criminal justice system, and by the media. The fact that an allegation of rape by a young child should be immediately accepted as fact, setting in motion a gruelling official investigation and a national child safety scare, seems to have been accepted as merely one of those things; a small price to pay to bring justice for those children who really have been subjected to appalling abuses."