AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Cultural differences allow paedophiles to escape the law, says child sex abuse investigator Chris O’Connor
PAEDOPHILES from some ethnic groups in Australia are avoiding capture because of a cultural reluctance to report the abuse.
“I can’t recall the last person of black nationality who was charged with serial sexual assaults on kids,” Det-Sen-Sgt Chris O’Connor said yesterday.
Sen-Sgt O’Connor, one of Australia’s leading child sexual abuse experts, said common sense suggested paedophilia was just as common in ethnic groups as it was among white Anglo-Saxons,
He is calling for urgent research to be carried out into the problem.
Sen-Sgt O’Connor said the ethnic groups who should be targeted would probably claim it was racist to single them out.
But he urged authorities to ignore the complaints and not bow to political correctness by refusing to probe the paedophilia problem just because of the cultures and races involved.
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