"More than 25 per cent of all rapes recorded by the police are committed against children under 16 years of age.A while spent searching the internet leads me to think that the petitioner derives his figures from These NSPCC statistics.
One per cent of children experienced sexual abuse by a parent or carer and another three per cent by another relative during childhood. Eleven per cent of children experience sexual abuse by people known but unrelated to them. Five per cent of children experience sexual abuse by an adult stranger or someone they have just met.
Three-quarters of sexually abused children do not tell anyone about the abuse at the time, and around a third still have not told anyone about their experience(s) by early adulthood.
Is it not time to bring real justice to this slaughter of innocence?"
Horrible figures. Horrible things happening. Dreadful.
What the hell does the petitioner think "tougher sentences" are going to do to help? How is it "justice" to spend all the effort on "tougher sentences" (given that, among other things, the Sexual Offences Act 2003 "toughened up" sentences) instead of on educating and encouraging children to tell people abuse is happening? Or what about taking other actions to see that people who've committed offences against children continue to get support once they've left prison to help them to not re-offend? Or ... any number of other useful things one might do to protect children, instead of just having a knee-jerk reaction that "tougher sentences" will make it all OK.
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