As promised...

As a seven-year-old child, I was the victim of a most heinous sexual crime.

I was walking through the park one day when a boy a whole year older than me ran towards me and revealed his genitalia, waggling it in my face before running off giggling.

Naturally enough my mother informed the police, who immediately created the requisite crime report. Within hours they were at my door and a reassuringly large pile of paper began to accumulate. Through some superlative investigative skills, my attacker was identified. The crime report was in place, I had been interviewed, we were all ready and willing to go to court. Police prepared to swoop.

Then, the system let me down and my real ordeal began, for on discovering that the felon was only eight years old, the police dropped all charges.

Five messages to the officer concerned, two letters to the Area Commander, three solicitors and one MP later, my fight for justice rages on...

When, oh when will they close this loophole in the law which means we cannot get Detections out of under-10s? You can offer support to my campaign by clicking here.

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Note: I feel it only fair to say that this scenario did not actually happen to me personally. Just in case you were wondering.