As a Japanese person, I keep trying to make the arithmetic work, and I cannot. Britain has finally opened a statutory national inquiry into the grooming gangs. Baroness Longfield chairs it. Sixty five million pounds. Three years. The first national hearings begin at the end of this year. Three years. In Rotherham alone the abuse ran for sixteen years while the police, the council and the social workers all knew. So the counting now looks like this. Sixteen years to ignore it. Twelve more years, after the Jay Report, to argue about whether a national inquiry was even allowed to exist. Three years to hold the hearings. A girl who was eleven when it started is a woman past thirty before anyone official is required to sit down and listen to her. In Japan we are taught that Britain built the modern idea of due process. I believe that. I have read about it since I was a boy. So I am asking honestly, not to score a point off anyone. How does a country this old, this experienced, this proud of its own courts, end up with a timetable where the victims age faster than the investigation?

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