Pandemic hysteria about paedophilia
September 24th 2010 18:22
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How far
Two news reports this week make one wonder how far the global tidal wave of protectionism towards children will go.
From England comes the story of the Coventry Sports Foundation, which has decided that parents watching their children play sport creates too much pressure for the child. And so the charitable organisation, which runs dozens of after-school clubs across the city of Coventry, has banned parents from all events.
From Australia came the story of a mother with a digital camera trained on her son during a kids athletics carnival being asked to put the camera away because other parents might be nervous of a stranger filming their children.
This "pandemic hysteria about paedophilia", as news.com.au blogger Jack Marx calls it, has gone too far.
It's as bad as the days when political correctness went too far and started to strangle the right of free speech.
In the Coventry case, Neil Carter, 47, was booted out of the changing rooms minutes before his five-year-old son Joshua was due to play a football match. Carter was there because it was his son's first after-school, club football match, because his son is naturally shy, and because it is, well, expected that a parent would watch over a five-year-old in public.
No, said the Coventry Sports Foundation. It had a shiny new child protection policy and any parents turning up at events to cheer their kids on could forget it.
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