Baby P, Paedos And Dangers Of Groupthink

Mary Riddell, writing in the Telegraph summarises Anorak’s thesis rather well:

‘In the popular myth, paedophiles and abductors lurk at every corner. In reality, there never was a golden age of childhood. The demons threatening the young are not evil outsiders but, most often, the fathers and the mothers brought up in dysfunctional families and wreaking the destruction they suffered on their own children.”

When all children are thought to be in danger, then the few who are brutalised and murdered may go unnoticed and unrescued until some terrible event occurs. And then, as in the Case of Baby P, governments call for reviews, opposition politicians posture and declaim while citizens recoil in horror.’

At some point it may dawn on those recoiling in horror that it really shouldn’t be hard for a paediatrician to notice that a child has numerous broken ribs and a broken back; the GMC at least has acted.

We will have to hope that the inevitable investigation takes on board the dangers of groupthink, as well as the failure to understand the nature of risk…

- Chenier

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