Do you remember when the professional classes tutted with contempt at the ignorance of those who daubed the word 'paedo' on the home of a paediatrician? Such ignorance seems to be catching. In the recent furore about sexual offences and teachers, it was public figures, rather than yobs, who indulged in emotive name-calling, and failed to distinguish between child carers and child abusers. The saga revealed a worrying lack of proportion. Kidscape irresponsibly hyped-up the hysteria by claiming that schools might be teeming with abusers: '...(these) are just the ones we know about. The true figure runs into thousands'.
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