Jack Straw on child abuse: “The terms of the agreement did not include an apology”

(not satire – unfortunately)

A lot of people often wonder out loud how it could be possible for so many people in positions of authority to turn a blind eye to the countless examples of children being abused in state institutions such as children’s homes, young offenders’ institutes and even the BBC.

Well I can answer that one.

They don’t really care.

This is disturbingly illustrated in a detail not often mentioned related to the horrific case of prison officer Neville Husband who police now say abused more than 200 children in his ‘care’.

Husband tied up little boys, tortured them and repeatedly raped them. Police now say this happened on a ‘daily basis’.

Husband was finally imprisoned for the horrific abuse – but the state fought compensation claims by the victims for years through every court they could. And when a few of the victims finally did receive some money in compensation – they discovered most of it had been eaten up by their legal fees which were not covered by the settlement.

None of the victims have been offered counselling or psychiatric help.

In fact, they haven’t even received an official apology.

Because when Stephen Byers, the local MP for one of the victims, wrote to Jack Straw – the then Home Secretary – asking for a public apology, Straw replied:

“The terms of the agreement did not include an apology.“

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Or to put it another way: “Who cares?“

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Well, members of the UK establishment may not care – but I’m sure the rest of us do. Many of these abusers were working on OUR behalf in OUR state institutions, their wages paid by us from OUR tax money.

So on behalf of all the decent, normal citizens of the country who are appalled by what has been happening on our behalf, I’d just like to offer our heartfelt apology to all the victims of abuse by people supposedly working on behalf of the state.

I assure you, most of us really do care.

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