From Steve McGiffen
Ian Sample’s article on electronic tags for children (14 September, p 25) contained some telling points, but seemed to me to miss the main one. Statistical evidence, backed up by a great deal of personal testimony, demonstrates that electronic tags would merely allow children to be located by the adults who pose the greatest danger to them – their parents and other family members.
Every time children are abducted, abused or murdered by people they do not know, the media circus which invariably follows revolves around the false premise that children are safe in their homes and must be protected from “strangers”.
Given that as a child I was frequently hit with considerable force round the head by a close family member, it may only be the fact that I was able to hide from him that has allowed me, thirty-something years later, to have the intellectual capacity to read your magazine and respond to its contents.
Brussels
