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The evil in our midst

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20000403
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TO anybody with a heart not twisted by hate and self-loathing, a National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children sounds a grotesque anachronism, a hangover from the days of Charles Kingsley and child chimneysweeps. How can it be possible - in this age when violence of all kinds is punished by law, and the mistreatment of a donkey in Spain can provoke a newspaper campaign - that young children, unable to hit back or fend for themselves, can be beaten senseless, sexually abused or employed in the pornography trade, by people who call themselves human beings? Yet the NSPCC is ...

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