As the full scale of the British Establishment's
cover-up of child sex abuse becomes apparent, Alistair McBay argues it
is time for the Crown Prosecution Service to make public its reasons for
dropping the investigation into Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor 12
years ago.
It's hard to know where to begin in
writing about the issue of child sex abuse in Britain. As Home Secretary
Teresa May said earlier this month, the abuse is "woven, covertly, into the fabric of British society".
She warned that "what the country doesn't yet appreciate is the true
scale of that abuse" but might have added "or the scale of the
cover-up."