Why does Hollie stand a better chance of bringing her abusers to justice than other victims of child-abuse?
Very few if any child-abuse victims are able to report the abuse during their childhood because, as in Hollie’s case, their abusers usually threaten them with terrible consequences if they breathe a word. Even if they do manage to tell someone they’re unlikely to be believed, nor will any action be taken against their alleged abusers if these happen to be close family members, still less as in Hollie’s case ‘respectable’ people including public figures. Abuse tends to run in families – Hollie’s father first abused Hollie’s older brother who then abused Hollie, and very possibly Hollie’s father was himself abused as a child. Then when a person is older it is even harder to get the abuse dealt with retrospectively, as by then there will be no evidence. Paedophilia is a nasty cycle which it seems almost impossible to break, especially where it interweaves with the culture of the establishment as in Scotland.
