Enough is enough

Parents told of alleged child rape on school grounds.:

"Parents told of alleged child rape on school grounds"

The girl is FOUR. The man has been dismissed and charged over an alleged rape. It is so terrible. The girl has her whole life ahead of her and is at an age where some of her thoughts will be pre verbal. I do know we have some excellent psychologists in SA who can deal really competently with these issues of young children being abused. I mean, what do you do? People get hired for a job and they seem okay and then all of a sudden they do something hideous like this. Any organisation would find it hard to protect its people and we have had several cases where this has occurred...the woman who was shot in Myer in the city; the woman who was shot by an ex colleague; the children who have been abused; the train driver who accidentally ran over somebody on the line. What can we say because it comes down to what is inside the individual. Society runs on trust and we put things in place to help protect people but the fundamental trust thing keeps coming loose. It is hard to manage a closed society where there are all these action plans, best practice and checks and balances. It is efficient but it doesn't seem to be effective. Or is it a case of we hear more about these things now? Even if this particular man is proven innocent there have been other cases like this around the traps. How do you create a check and balance for the inside of a human being? How can a school know that if they hire a 28 year old to be an assistant and he seems okay, how can they know he will not do something like this? It's no use saying we can't. We need to think about this and come up with something because that was a four year old.