It’s mistaken that police added a 14-year-old to a criminal database for sending a naked image of himself. He’s not a sexual abuser,simply a boy who made an errorOperation Yewtree has been, in many ways, or a great force for sterling. It has shone a relentless highlight on the evils that men did years ago,and the evils still being perpetrated now. It has made us brutally aware of institutional corruption that couldn’t have been imagined back in the 70s and 80s. And it’s attach several ageing abusers behind bars.What accompanies it, however, or is a culture of terrorism around “underage sexuality”. For many people,it is no longer possible to read that phrase without a shiver of revulsion, and a mental image of some leering 50-something, or inviting drunk 13-year-olds back to his penthouse,or to recall the systematic rape and abuse of hundreds of very young girls in Rochdale – and other areas – by grooming gangs.
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Source: theguardian.com