"When I was a lad in the north of England there were gangs of lads in our streets who took girls off to shag 'em in the public bogs. Or take 'em back to their houses when their mams and dads were in the boozer. Everybody was white and nobody told."

Were these young girls being raped and trafficked by much older pimps? If so, and nobody told, then shame on them. I have heard that "nobody told" about a lot of bad things in the old days. Thankfully, hopefully, the climate of unspoken acceptance of and apathy towards abuse is gradually changing. But no doubt we still have some way to go.