This may or may not be a long post from me, because i don't know how long it will last yet.
When i was at Uni in the late 1970's, myself and 3 other students decided to research pedophilia within the Catholic church. We started by going to the Irish Republic. I'm not going to go into detail here about what we saw and found. But we did publish the results, along with sending those results to Cormac, Murphy O'Conner we sent the results to the Garda and Scotland Yard.
Within a couple of years, a hell of a lot of Catholic girls and boy's homes were closed in the IR.
We didn't stop in the IR though, we also carried on research in the UK after graduation.
It became obvious even after a few months of research it was even more endemic and deeper rooted in the UK. It became more and more obvious to us that, pedophilia was not only endemic within the Catholic church at the time, but was accepted as NORMAL by the people "in the know".
As a result of our research and publication at the time, numerous Archbishops and priests " retired" due to "health" reasons.
That publication that we did resulted in almost all Catholic boys and girls homes in the UK being closed.................................because that is how endemic it was at the time.
At that time, the power of the Catholic church was massive. It had a hold over large parts of the population and an even bigger hold over governments.
So, what has all that got to do with this thread you are asking ?
I'll tell you, a pedophile is a pedophile..............................it makes no difference if he/she is Catholic/Muslim/Budist or anything.
It's absolutely crystal clear from this, and many many other cases that the "authority's" have not learned anything at all from the past. Not only that, they are deliberately ignoring and indeed "covering up "
Maybe this is because in this case it's Muslim's involved. A pedophile is a pedophile...................makes no difference if he/she is Catholic/Muslim/C of E/ Jewish........whatever. All and none of them should be able to get away with it.
For the authorities to just "ignor" this because it might upset an ethnic part of the population, beggers belief
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In my mind, if a kettle is black, then call it black.
Ever since i was in my teens i have seen authority's just ignoring pedophilia. As i've got older (64 now), i've come to the conclusion that "authority's" actually don't care and are are quite happy to be complicit because it suits them from time to time.
Do i think the Telford report will make any difference ? No, because i'm old enough to know that after hundreds of child sex reports that i have read........................the only one's that made any difference were the in the Irish Republic and Catholic boys and Girls homes in the UK.