For historical cases, I get the public naming, to see if there are more alleged victims. It's not as simple to say "you should have reported it at the time" because in the past, complainants were routinely ignored by the police or had undue pressure put on them - by the police and/or the organisation to which the alleged offender belonged - to drop the allegations. However, in the post-Savile climate, this would never happen anymore. Complainants are always respected and believed and allegations are investigated thoroughly, leading to some monsters being caught (Clifford) and other innocent people being dragged through the mud, sometimes wrongly convicted and other times charges dropped/not charged but publicly, mentally and irrevocably damaged (Gambaccini, Sir Cliff).
Therefore, I believe now is the time to make it illegal to name anyone accused of any crime (until conviction) BUT that allegations dating from (plucking a year out of thin air) pre-2010 be exempt from this, as the climate was not previously supportive for victims making a valid allegation. In modern-day UK, this is no longer applicable, and you can report sexual abuse in confidence, without being judged by the police and your allegation will be investigated thoroughly. So there is absolutely no reason for this public naming thing to still apply now, though I do understand why it is necessary for older cases when victims previously could not have their complaints properly dealt with and respected.
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