Shocking
I took saw that this morning and was wondering how to most usefully present it.
Things are often swept under the carpet due to feelings of guilt, shame, and embarrassment. Letâs stop and consider for a moment.
There are 299 known victims which makes one wonder how many other âunknownsâ there may be.
For every one of those child victims there are parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, nurses, and doctors who should perhaps have noticed something was wrong, listened to the child, seen the change in the child, taken some form of protective and caring action.
So for every victim there may well be 10 people feeling very troubled by what they should have done but didnât. That makes 2,990 people who regard themselves as having failed in their duty to a vulnerable child.
Of course this is just about 1 offender and his known victims.
How many other undetected offenders are there ? How many other unidentified victims ?
So now, as a society, there is a realisation that the number of people who have at some time or another failed to listen and act runs into the tens, or perhaps even hundreds of thousands.
Thatâs an awfully large number of people who may well prefer to sweep the whole thing under the carpet.
Itâs not public indifference, itâs public shame.
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But it allowed them to keep their jobs and income going, one part of the problem is how we treat whistle blowers, upsetting the apple cart could cause a lot of people to be out of work.
At least nowadays, there is help for those who need it and who are brave enough to ask for it.
There are phone numbers et al⌠for any âwhistleblowerâ to tell the tale privately and not get blasted.
Imagine if you will⌠way back in the 50âs⌠when families lived close together and neighbours must have heard the screams of the small child being mercilessly thrashed by the raging/unhinged parent.
The kids overheard the Adults as they discussed it amongst themselves, saying how disgraceful it was ⌠but none of those Adults were brave enough to say anything and the kids were too traumatised. 
There was a discussion about this case on France 24 the other night, and the conclusion I formed was that the judge in Le Scouarnecâs 2004 paedophilia porn case should have done far more than just impose a four month suspended sentence. The obvious solution, given the stated shortage of surgeons, should have been to allow him to continue operating, but to ensure that he was never again allowed to be in a situation where he was alone with a child.