Ongoing bungling of child sex abuse case

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Not too much about this on here, but I saw a short clip on one news channel about this last night and it is, frankly, disgusting and very alarming that names of the child sex abuse victims were leaked. Some have since received death threats.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/29/ch...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-ord...

There were also stories running last night that investigations into further cases of abuse are ongoing in Rotherham.

http://news.sky.com/story/1416946/rotherham-victim...

Keith Vaz has been rightly criticised for making these details public. (Surely he has to go now? How many disgraces can a public official hope or expect to survive?)

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55palfers said:

I can't get my head round the Rotherham case / allegations and the complete lack of any action by Plod and the authorities.

I can't, but then I'm starting to join the dots. People like Vaz might have more influence and interest in the case than we know and the police are very possibly not without blame:

http://news.sky.com/story/1417606/police-officers-...

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Foliage said:

This is all bullst isn't it, there is more to this than meets the eye...

Quite. At present, it's very difficult to know what is and what is not 'connected', but it does seem clear that, as with the Chilcot enquiry;
a.) those in authority are very possibly abusing their power
b.) they are also using their influence to cover up

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joe_90 said:

Vaz should get charged for this, others have been before for accidentally releasing names.

Personally I loather the bloke. I'll list a few reasons why, just to keep them fresh on the search engines.

Keith Vaz, a list of misdemeanours in no particular order and not exhaustive:

• His part in the threats (let's not dignify them with any pseudo religious description) against Salman Rushdie
• His implication and obstruction of the Filkin investigation
• Hinduja brothers scandal
• Suspension from the House of Commons for making false allegations against a former WPC

There can be no doubt about his character, but it's not clear (to me at least) that he's directly responsible or that he might not be being used as a convenient fall guy to hide the identity (and thereby motivations and connections) of the actual person responsible.

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carinaman said:

The BBC only reported the MoJ disks lost in the post yesterday after chancing upon an announcement on the MoJ website? But other news outlets were reporting it four days ago? Maybe.

IIRC, it was Sky News where I heard of the story last night and, from what I saw of it last night, the BBC news channel had nothing about the matter. I really have suspicions about all this.