"Just think percentages....and keep thinking percentages, all will be revealed."

And herein lies one of the nubs of the problem when discussing 'taboo' topics: where are the figures to be gleaned from if there is a "culture of silence" which prevents certain crimes from being brought to light in the first place? How long did it take for the scale of clerical abuse to come to light despite the fact that among those working class communities within which it was mainly occurring, the problem of clerical abuse was effectively 'common knowledge'? The official figures may register nil when in fact there are thousands of unrecognised and unacknowledged victims. According to numerous comments and articles posted on this topic online, the "figures" substantially under-represent the scale of the problem. How often to "the figures" under-represent poorly educated and economically underprivileged victims of crime who have little or no power to make themselves heard, far less believed?