I watched a programme last night that sickened me. It was a documentary presented by Ross Kemp. A little backround on Kemp, he became a household name here in the UK as one of the main characters "hard man" Grant Mitchel in the BBC's depressing soap opera Eastenders.
After leaving the show he then went on to be an investigative journalist presenting documentaries on such topics as Britain's hardest criminals, gangs, drug dealers, dangerous prisoners and such like, all in keeping with his manufactured tough guy image. He's been on drug raids with the
police, interviewed notorious criminals and had meetings with various underworld characters, at all times with the protection of a camera crew and production team obviously.
His shows always tried to give the impression he was in some type of danger with his narration claiming how many risks they were taking.
In the programme I watched last night Kemp was in Mumbai investigating the appalling problem of child sex trafficking. During the documentary he revealed facts such as children as young as 2 and a half years old were being taken by traffickers, thousands of young girls had been taken from villages around Mumbai. Some children were forced into selling sex for 23 pence a day. Any girls who tried to escape were being killed. The child trafficking CID unit only had 13 employees to cover a populace of 90 million people. The.police dept were being bribed to turn a blind eye to this horrifying trade and some were thought to be help facilitate it.
The big finale of his documentary was him managing to track down and interview one of the most established traffickers in the area. Some of the admissions he makes on camera are astonishing.
As somebody who has worked with children who have experienced this vile reality I'm more aware than most on the impact it has on the victim and their families. From a personal point of view I simply cannot understand why a documentary would even matter when faced with such a disgusting admission of guilt. I would have had to have acted at that point, I would have jumped on this sick bastard and took him out myself, without hesitation. It would have been a natural instinct to me. But that's just me.
You can see how Kemp handled the situation here. This world gets sicker by the day.