In trolling cases, for example, by protecting the abuser, you are discouraging the abused from entering public debates.
There have been persistent claims from boys abused at Kincora and human rights organisations that military intelligence and the RUC knew about the rape of children in care but used the information to blackmail the paedophiles, forcing them to spy on fellow loyalists.
"I can say because I was there that it is normal for women to be sexually abused in prison.
Claims that Gerry Adams's brother Liam sexually abused his daughter prompted the Sinn Féin president to reveal that his father (once a republican icon) had sexually abused children in the family.
Related: Domestic violence: why 'just go' is not always the answer for abused women There is debate among leaders about whether courts are too lenient on male Aboriginal offenders and the notion that violence against women is "cultural" is rejected.
1. Women of Africa want to live in a peaceful continent in which there are no widows as a result of senseless killings and war, a continent in which they are not sexually abused and violated and in which suffering is not caused by the self-interest of a few corrupt and power hungry leaders.
The writer Joan Smith, in a column for the Guardian, claimed Gone Girl is guilty of "playing on what we now know about the behaviour of abused women and undermining the credibility of victims".
More recently he has launched operations to rescue girls sold into abusive forced marriages and helped turn hundreds of villages into rehabilitation centres to teach trades to abused teenagers.
The subject matter might seem bleak – drug addicts on sink estates, impoverished and abused children in the slums of Mumbai, a mountain climber forced to sacrifice a limb – but Boyle's films are never hopeless.
It was increasingly abused and held to ransom and in the end Thatcher broke with it.
The witness said he was once sexually abused by a woman at the home, although he could not recall if it was a nun or a civilian worker.
