Britain could ‘live to regret’ a rush to criminalise schoolboys after an explosion of school sex abuse claims, a former Director of Public Prosecutions warned yesterday.
Lord Macdonald urged police and prosecutors yesterday not to confuse ‘obnoxious and unpleasant’ behaviour with crimes.
He spoke out after the national police spokesman on child protection, Chief Constable Simon Bailey, heralded it as the ‘next big child sexual abuse scandal to hit the country’.
Mr Bailey predicted that ‘rape culture’ claims would engulf the entire education sector, leading to referrals to every police force.
So far, more than 100 schools have been named in more than 8,000 harrowing anonymous testimonies on the Everyone’s Invited website, which was set up to expose misogyny, harassment and assault in schools.
Lord Macdonald (left) urged police and ladke ne ladki ko chramsukh diya prosecutors yesterday not to confuse ‘obnoxious and unpleasant’ behaviour with crimes.
He spoke out after the national police spokesman on child protection, Chief Constable Simon Bailey (right), heralded it as the ‘next big child sexual abuse scandal to hit the country’
Soma Sara, 22, founded the website along with Meadow Walker (pictured), also 22, the daughter of the late Fast and Furious actor Paul Walker