"Within our society today crime against people with learning difficulties has long been ignored or ‘downgraded’ as abuse rather than crime.

Time and again perpetrators of crime against people with learning difficulties are either excused their criminal actions because their victims have learning difficulties, or escape justice because their evidence is given greater weight than that of their victims.

Victims of crime who have learning difficulties often find themselves penalized twice, as their freedoms are further restricted in order to ‘protect’ them from further crime while their persecutors walk free.

If there is one lesson that should be learned from this - it is that all people should be treated equally before the law"