This week a fourteen year old girl was strapped to a lie detecting machine - and quizzed about her sex life as part of a radio breakfast show.
At best, this is an example of bad taste, and at worst it is exploitation by the lure of a sex story to attract listeners.
The unexpected outcome was that this fourteen year old girl revealed that she had been raped just two years previously, when she was twelve years old - and it became evident that this fact was known by her mother - and no action had been taken to alert the police to the crime.
There are calls for the show to be axed and the radio stars sacked, but this seems to miss the point.
There is a rapist out there - walking around free. It looks like he got away with raping a twelve year old girl - and the people who have an obligation to protect her did nothing about it - and that is a further crime.
The quest for listeners and viewers results in many instances of questionable taste in the entertainment industry. It has always been so - and there is no reason to expect change in the near future.
At least this instance has had a positive result. The welfare people will be having a chat with this girl's mother - and she will have some explaining to do if she wants to avoid a charge - and the police will be doing their best to identify and charge the rapist.
It begs the question of how many other unreported rape victims live in this community !
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