Thanks Jim, and I appreciate the difficulty of discussing sensitive subjects on a forum such as this, particularly as I walked right into the middle of an already heated disagreement.

I don't know how many people posting here had already been following some of these cases under discussion, but the phenomenona being described in some of these stories was news to me until I stumbled blindly into this thread, and it provoked me to start ploughing through other relevant discussions and articles on-line.

There has been some doubt expressed here around whether or not there is any substance to some of the claims being made about the volume of alleged victims by Cryer et al. And a particular point was made about the first story I flagged up by way of response ("Emma" in the Independent) that (approx) 'interesting as her story is, it was not made under oath.' The Bolton story linked to above was posted in particular response to that point. There may be further reports out there on the internet, which provide similar testimony, but I if I find them I won't link to any further stories here. I'm aware that while I may have added fuel to the fire, I hope some of my contributions to this thread have provided food for thought, and if so, then that is quite enough as I'm not here to fight any battles on behalf of anyone else. And it seems I may be in danger of doing just that, which was really not my intention.

Meanwhile, I am waxing thoroughly tired of this subject and as that's as much as I think it is useful for me to participate in this discussion (fingers and toes crossed) this really will be my last posting on this thread..

Exeunt