A recent report by SG Securities, a French stockbroker, slammed Romania's record on shareholders' rights, citing reports of "consistent, wilful abuse".
The original law - last changed in 1933, only refers to "wilful" physical abuse.
The revelations of the sheer scale of individual failures and institutional blindness verging on wilful ignorance, which allowed Jimmy Savile to abuse hundreds of children mean that every case of alleged abuse of children by prominent figures, now being considered by prosecutors, carries a huge weight of expectation.
In the event, the report both surpassed and fell short of those predictions.The report surpassed expectations because it concluded that Rupert Murdoch is "is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company", and was guilty of "wilful blindness" in failing to see the abuses rife in his British tabloid newsrooms.
Biehal questions plans to charge social workers with wilful neglect if children in their care suffer abuse: "I don't agree with the criminalisation of a workforce and we must be careful of not making a political point out of child protection, as has happened so often in the past.
The Winterbourne View scandal has shown the need for a new offence of "corporate wilful neglect" to prosecute care home-owners for allowing abuse to go on behind closed doors, the former care minister has said.
But the abuse has grown so blatant that such wilful disregard is no longer possible.Exactly how big the problem is, no one is quite sure, only that over the past couple of decades it has been getting worse and that western visitors are much to blame.
She evinced a kind of helplessness, whereas a report by the Oakland Institute into alleged cover-ups of human rights abuses noted that DfID and USAid are, "wilful accomplices and supporters of a development strategy that will have irreversible devastating impacts on the environment and natural resources and will destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people".
It is regrettable that the aspect of the government's response to the shocking disclosures about child sexual exploitation in Oxfordshire that has got most attention is the intention to make it possible to prosecute social workers, police and other professionals for "wilful neglect" where it appears they have not acted on child abuse.
