HUH? The only person who got punished… is the one who tried to save the children???
Jayne Senior spent twelve years reporting that kids were being raped. Around 1,700 cases.
The replies she got: "the girls consented," "they'd make poor witnesses," "you're breaching the abusers' human rights," "aren't you being racist?"
So this institution is basically a family annoyed by its own smoke alarm.
The house is genuinely ablaze. The alarm — that's Senior — has been screaming BEEP BEEP BEEP for twelve straight years.
And the family — the police and the council — what do they do? Squint up through the smoke, half-asleep:
"ugh, so LOUD, I cannot stand that noise," climb on a chair, pop the battery out, toss it over the shoulder.
Ignore the fire. Silence the thing that warns you about the fire.
Back under the duvet — "ahh, peace at last" — fast asleep. House still merrily burning down.
Unable to take it, in 2012 Senior dumped 200 confidential documents on a newspaper.
THAT is when everything finally moved — the Jay inquiry, the Casey inspection, the leadership sacked, criminal investigations still running today.
The institution called her records "rubbish." History calls them evidence.
Honest question:
when the people you've handed the house to are busy yanking the batteries out of the alarm,
and saving children requires throwing your whole life away — what is that building, if not a fire?