@cee-dee wrote:
Why didn't people complain years ago and if it's the old excuse "they didn't think they'd be believed", why should they think that their complaint 20, 30, 40 or 50 years later would be any more believable?
Because attitudes are different to now, certain people would get less support from sycophants and are much less likely to be able to shout down or brush off a complaint.
It is still far from easy to make a complaint even today, the 14 year old being abused by a gang reported it to both social services and the police but was ignored.
Perhaps we should move to a non adversarial system when trying such cases, that at least would avoid such as the 14 year old facing hostile questioning by a number of barristers over several days.
It might also be an idea if more people accepted the court's verdict but that might be asking too much, so many decide the verdict before it's even got to court and nothing changes their mind.
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