The state of the nation (1)

The TV news often includes features on education, with interviews of teachers or cooks. To convince the viewer the TV crew really is at a school there are shots of lots of little legs running about. Just the legs. Quite often nowadays any complete child inadvertently straying into the picture is 'blurred out'. Presumably the TV companies are doing this 'to protect our children' from paedos. Perhaps they are complying with new government guidelines.
My two youngest daughters have helped out at after-school club of the local primary school. So they might do this police checks were necessary to ensure they weren't pervs.
Despite all this superficial nonsense Kevin Hazelwood was yesterday found guilty of raping a nine-year-old girl six times over an extended period of time despite being on the sex offenders' register and supposedly under close supervision in the community.
Not entirely unrelated, a man is in police custody after a house was blown up in Cheddleton, Staffs yesterday. My sources tell me the man was recently released from prison having served two years (yes, TWO YEARS) for stabbing his lover to death. He is said to have been dating the 16 year old girl who was killed in the fire/explosion.
Anyone else believe we need to sort out our priorities?