I'm about to go on the air with BBC Radio Cornwall's Martin Bailie to talk about a shocking case of child abuse. Five years ago, a little girl was the victim of a serious sex attack in Cornwall. She knew her attacker - it was her mum's boyfriend. The little girl was so badly injured she needed hospital treatment.
The Crown Prosecution Service decided there was little chance of a conviction and so this man was never charged and remains at large, in Cornwall, today. The Local Safeguarding Children Board has published a Serious Case Review which makes clear there was no chance of earlier intervention which would have protected the girl, but criticises police and CPS.
This Review, which took more than four years to produce, is the only public acknowledgement of the child's ordeal. It runs to just five pages.
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