This fiasco of sex abuse inquiry is totally out of control

The problem, which Theresa May did not anticipate when she decided to set up the Inquiry two years ago in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, is just how extreme many of the campaigners demanding an inquiry were. I call them 'abuse fundamentalists'. Some of them are avid conspiracy theorists, recycling tall tales from the Eighties era, when panic about alleged Satanic ritual abuse was at its height. Many are anti-Tory. They have all been traumatised, they claim, and everything that is wrong with their lives today is somebody else's fault. It is important to say at this point there are undoubtedly many victims of historic abuse whose lives have been damaged as a result, especially children who were subjected to terrible crimes, often when they were in the 'care' of the State. But there is also a vocal lobby who seem as impervious to reason as religious fundamentalists. Unless you submit to their world view - a fixation on the idea that society is riddled with shadowy VIP paedophile 'rings' shielded by an evil Establishment omerta - they will viciously condemn you as an apologist for paedophiles.

source: Article 'This fiasco of sex abuse inquiry is totally out of control...and as to end now, says public law barrister Barbara Hewson'; Article by Barbara Hewson; www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3814949/This-fiasco-sex-abuse-inquiry-totally-control-end-says-public-law-barrister-BARBARA-HEWSON.html; The Daily Mail; 30 September 2016