The horrific crimes committed by Mohamed Al Fayed, the former Harrods owner, are back in the news again. We are now learning that one of his victims could have been as young as 13 and the number of women he could have raped could be in the hundreds.
The scale of this abuse is staggering but not shocking. Men like Al Fayed have been and are still getting away with. They are getting away with it because we are now in a situation where the sexual abuse of women and girls has become the norm. Convictions for rape are negligible and some might say non-existent. Reporting rape or sexual assault in some places is also non-existent because women have lost faith in the system.
