That has fractured the image of a frail victim mistreated by the authorities.
Today, Groening sits face to face with his now grey-haired and often equally frail surviving victims and their relatives.
Even when charges are brought, some frail and elderly victims die before a trial can be held, the report said.
So begins a catalogue of suicides, the victims' frail psyches 'shattered' by the cruel manipulation of the psychopath who targets them.
But housing associations and homeless charities warned the move would put thousands on tenants in sheltered accommodation at risk of losing their homes, including frail older residents, victims of domestic violence and people with mental illness.
Acquitted of murder, the two who had been apprehended were sent to jail for eleven years, their previous good conduct taken into account, together with the consideration, undenied by the court, that there was an accidental element in what had befallen them: neither had known of their victim's frail, imperfect heart.
Tens of thousands of tenants in sheltered housing, including frail older residents, domestic violence victims and people with mental illness may become homeless as a result of benefit cuts, landlords have said.
But obvious satire was only one of the strings to Momus's faux-gilt bow; the more beguiling songs were those that conjured a world of decadence and near-depravity in which his frail protagonists were at once victims and perpetrators.
There, frail democracies too often fall victim to corruption, social division, greed and dictatorship.
NHS hospitals treat everyone – including the dangerously ill, accident victims, the old and frail, people with multiple illnesses – on steadily shrinking budgets.
It can be hypothesized that a victim who is small, frail, or even under the influence of a substance is more vulnerable and more likely to be targeted by an offender.
