Press coverage horrified Guardian commentator Carol Sarler. She railedagainst the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and The Sun, whose reporters shesays descended upon an 11-year-old girl, who they then "named, describedand teased for sexual titbits". Nor was she impressed with the News ofthe World, which carried a long and detailed interview with a12-year-old who said she had been raped.
As Sarler points out, the press code of practice insists children under16 who are victims or witnesses in cases involving sex offences must notbe named. Sarler guesses that while reporters could not abuse childrenin that way in Britain, they assumed they could get away with it inVietnam. "And isn't that the thinking that takes the Gary Glitters therein the first place?"
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