Some of the worst cases of child abuse have been uncovered in recent years, causing some social workers to put caution before common sense. Recently children are being taken from their parents on the slightest whiff of abuse, which for today’s social workers involves any sign of corporal punishment. But what happens then? The BBC website is carrying a video of an interview with Danielle, taken into care aged 11 in 1998 after marks from a belt were seen on her back. If that were punishment, it sounds excessive, but what subsequently happened to Danielle makes it seem like the ultimate in compassion. Danielle, now twenty-seven, was moved six times in six weeks, had twenty-nine moves by age sixteen, was raped three times whilst ‘in care’, and had an attempted rape aged eleven in a children’s home. She ran away aged thirteen but was brought back. The BBC report reveals shocking outcomes of many children in care.