I think the problem in many, although by no means all, of these cases is what people got away with or was considered a minor issue then, is being rehashed with today's values.
Certainly under-aged sexual activity was a burgeoning past-time in the 60s onwards, and many 14 and 15 year old girls went out of their way to 'do it' and were very inventive in proving they were old enough.
So the waters were very muddy. Even Max Clifford said many months ago that when this all stared to hit, he had aged rock stars contacting him really concerned because, as they said, they were probably stoned out of their minds during those decades and had no idea where they were, let alone what they did.
I think these current exposures are all old cases that were investigated but not proceeded with - so all the skeletons are actively being dug out of the crypts and reviewed.
As has been shown with Stuart Hall, by making it public it seems the police are hoping more will come forward who will prove to be reliable witnesses and then the cracks appear and they get a result.
In some cases though, these investigations will show nothing more than they did when they were first investigated and dropped.
I do think that some of these are really bad to be dragged out again because we have a different view now than when they happened. When or where does it all stop?
It is too easy to hit the celebrities, but in theory all those who made claims of physical sexual harassment in the workplace, for example in the past and were dismissed as 'hysterical women', could come forward and by rights should have their cases reviewed!
The worst one that went under the radar thank goodness was the woman who got her page of publicity by 'exposing' John Peel, and this is a classic case of when things should be kicked out of the park.
She was under-aged (15) and he bonked her - some time in the 70's if I remember correctly. That appears to be the fact. However, what she then went on to say was [quote] "He must have known I was under-aged".
Well, why must he have known??? She obviously by her own absence of admission, failed to tell him and that was a deliberate act on her part. Why was she even hanging around like a groupie, waiting for the action, at that age?? Was she obviously a young 15 year old or was she, as so many at that time, plastered up to the nines to look 5 years older?
Where were her parents? Either thought she was able to take care of herself or more likely at that time, thought she was somewhere else entirely - so not someone to be trusted with the truth.
Some things are bad - no matter when they happened. Some things are the state of society then and it is not right that we put today's standards born out of our current problems with society onto those of a different time in the past.
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