Operation Yew Tree, the police investigation into sexual abuse allegations, predominantly the abuse of children, against various well known characters from the entertainment world, and elsewhere, has been throwing up several surprising names (rightly or wrongly). The case of Jimmy Savile, after his death, was one of the first, and was well and truly chewed over in the press. Other names have followed, latest amazingly being Cliff Richard, who has stated that the accusation, about an incident many years ago, is entirely false.
Recently I'm reading of investigations in the South Yorkshire city of Rotherham, which are, if it's possible, even more disturbing. See also this, published in the USA. Police are now investigating a huge child abuse scandal covering the span from 1997 to 2013, involving, allegedly, 1400 children, mainly white, with the abusers mainly British young males of Pakistani ethnicity.
These batches of revelations make me wonder if there's some astrological catalyst present in the UK right now. The national chart some astrologers use for the UK can be seen at the website of Peter Morrell, here. Using that chart, Britain has Sun in Capricorn and Aries rising. At present Pluto transits Capricorn and Uranus transits Aries. Pluto is a consummate house-cleaner and abscess burster, and appears to be doing its job efficiently, while Uranus throws up shock after ever more surprising shock.
These horrors have not been confined to Rotherham either, according to this piece.
I find it hard to contemplate these things, I really do.
Not all of the incidents involving well-known names will be found to be valid complaints. Most are made after decades of time have passed since the alleged acts. A mist of suspicion will remain over these names though.
In the case of the investigations in Rotherham, it has been said that steps were not taken earlier by the authorities for fear of their being labelled "racist". That is simply a pathetic excuse to my mind. It doesn't matter what race or colour a perpetrator of abuse on a child is - they must be brought to justice, and promptly! There's something very much "off" in this story. There has to be something more, something we're not told, for things to have reached the level of atrocity that's now being reported.
What the heck is, and has been, going on in the UK? The country has never been perfect by any stretch of the imagination, no country is; but Britain's reputation has never descended to this sordid level at any time in the past that I can recall.
