As for protecting and promoting the best interests of children we now come stone cold last. The worst of all monitored countries in the entire world.
1) In 2017 the UK was ranked 156th when it comes to protecting children:
2) If that was not bad enough, now two years later we’re >>170th<<:
http://www.kidsrightsindex.org/
This systemic lack of respect for children’s rights explains the ever increasing normalisation of child sexual abuse by the police and other public authorities:
3) Sex offenders can remove themselves from the register:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7846583/Sex-offenders-allowed-sign-danger-list.html
4) Police look the other way:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ex-cop-warned-chiefs-telford-20850375
And our own Hampshire Constabulary’s contribution:
5) Well they hand out cautions for things like rape, incest and child sexual abuse:
6) That’s if helping child sexual abuse suspects with a heads up letter doesn’t work:
7) And Hampshire Constabulary’s position on the Convention on the Rights of the Child? We’ll they say it doesn’t apply to them!
http://valuenetuk.com/dropbox/childrens-rights-out-the-window.pdf
The CRC was ratified by the UK some 25 years ago. It applies to all public authorities including Hampshire Constabulary. The best interests of children MUST always be a primary consideration. You don’t ignore child sexual abuse matters on a misperceived technicality, that’s putting children at deliberate risk of abuse. The probability of all of them throughout the organisation being so dangerously stupid is zero.
This is becoming more repulsive and perverted by the day. Clearly the reality is they have taken sides, and it’s not on the side of our children.
“Lessons will be learned”? Where? When? By whom? As a nation just how long do we let it go on for without bringing shame on ourselves for not doing anything about it?
For your consideration.