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cobalt124 said:It would seem that by default they were respected and trusted, possibly within some "old boys network" or some such like. This suggestion is possibly reinforced by seeing how much effort it took to expose them.
Just had a skim through the GMC report, the nearest thing to a positive outcome in this whole affair that we have (the fact that it had to be done in the first place is hardly positive). On my skimming of it, the report doesn't seem to miss a thing, and of the 143 pages, the vast majority deals with what happened to the twelve children, rather than highlighting the odious acts of the perpetrators, which we knew anyway. It seems that aspect of the affair (the victims viewpoint) is underepresented in this case.
I agree Cobalt.
I had wondered if this regard of the GMC report was again, an aspect of the "old boys network". And that is why it remained limited to the 3 and really only dealt with the ethical and COI problems, rather than uh...fraud! Or the degree to which others went to resist looking into that.