Why are so many people interested in Hollie and her story?
As most know, child-abuse in all its ugly forms has gone on for thousands of years and in practically every society throughout the world. This fact is often used as an excuse or get-out for not doing anything about it – “Oh paedophilia, yes it’s horrible but it’s always being going on, seems to be part of human nature, there’s nothing much we can do about it!” or, “I know it goes on but it’s just so awful I absolutely don’t want even to think about it!” You’d expect then that reactions to the Hollie story would be similarly dismissive or evasive, but very remarkably this is not the case. Ever since the news broke in February 2010 that Grampian Police had arrested Hollie and Anne Greig’s legal representative Robert Green for campaigning publicly on their behalf in Aberdeen the story has spread like a bush-fire around the internet. The public imagination seems to be fired by this fairy-tale like scenario of diminutive and handicapped yet ultra-determined Hollie, aided by her devoted mum
