Sexual abuse is a subject about which we are all now painfully aware, or at least should be. However, a report appearing on the Guardian website alerts us to one aspect of it that perhaps deserves more attention: the sexual abuse (including rape) of children by other children. In a similar vein, America has recently been transfixed by a rape trial involving pupils at an elite boarding school. We are told that at this boarding school there is something called “Senior Salute … a competition in which graduating seniors tried to have sex with underclassmen and kept score on a wall behind a set of washing machines”. It doesn’t sound the sort of place where any parent would want to send their teenage daughter or son. Meanwhile in England, to quote the Guardian article: