UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post

IF there was one crumb of comfort to be taken from the appalling litany of abuse committed by disgraced presenters Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall it was that it starkly underlined the threat posed by prolific child sex offenders, even those who operated in the full glare of publicity.

Indeed, such are the concerns arising from the scandalous way in which so many apparently turned a blind eye to their actions that Keir Starmer, the former director of public prosecutions, has called for a mandatory reporting law which would make it a criminal offence for teachers and other professionals to fail to act over suspicions that a youngster was being targeted in such a way.

Yet there is a nagging sense that the authorities are not taking the scourge of child abuse as seriously as they should. The Government says it has no plans to…