This is just pretty sad and it only reinforces the reality that there are very bad people who are very protected who wish to, and do harm children. How can a professional who is supposed to investigate crimes be impartial when/if they are covering a crime where the sexual abuse of children is being investigated? Their level of empathy for the criminal aka child sexual predator will be high. Their ability to investigate properly will be hindered. And to boot it may be possible that the child sexual predator may know the investigator who is investigating through their common interest and attraction to children.Mr Gamble said the 50 officers were among 1,200 Britons who had been identified as "category one or two" suspects - those who posed the greatest potential risk to children
Operation Ore was a very high profile investigation that has been around for awhile. These 50 officers must have known full well that this was an ongoing investigation and that their behavior would be found out. It is going to be interesting following their trials. I honestly don't understand how people have such a hard time believing that there are well connected people who gain access to children for their own sexual gratification. When their are stories like this and the scandal floating around the investigation into the (Sandusky) Second Mile case http://americanfreepress.net/?p=5116 it shouldn't be so hard to believe. When people are in positions of power and have the ability to cover things up it is amazing the deviant, disgusting, unfathomable things they can get away with. Just yesterday I read an article about someone who worked undercover with the FBI on human trafficking http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/30/Brandon-Darby-FBI-Ignoring-Sex-Trafficking-of-Minors and he tells the story of cases that don't get investigated and his feeling compelled to tell his story. I am glad that some of these things are coming to light.
As a survivor of ritual abuse I experienced first hand how people can get away with covering up horrible things. Some of the sexual abuse I survived was at the hands of adults who incorporated the sexual abuse of children into their "ceremonies." I know first hand what it is like to be aware that something horrible is going on and is being covered up. I have written in earlier blog posts about what I have experienced and how pedophiles were part of this group. That is one of the reasons I am so passionate about getting the word out on child sexual abuse. People need to be held accountable for the roles they play in harming children. This is why I am so glad to see this epidemic being exposed. From what I am reading on twitter we are going to see more coming out about the Second Mile and their role in pimping out children. This will be quite a different situation then the Franklin scandal http://franklinscandal.com/ Main stream media might not cover story's like this but there are plenty on social networking sites, bloggers and non-main stream media outlets who will. Social media has been a big blessing to getting the word on on child sexual abuse and those who perpetuate it. I hope those who have gotten away with harming children and felt protected doing so in the past are starting to realize they will be found out. Rosie
Fifty police officers across the UK have been arrested as part of a crackdown on suspected paedophiles who pay to access child pornography websites, detectives revealed today.
The officers were among 1,300 people arrested on suspicion of accessing or downloading indecent images of children - some as young as five - from US-based Internet sites.
Thirty-five men were arrested in London this morning as part of the investigation - codenamed Operation Ore - following raids on 45 addresses across the capital.