"necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote in message

For stories like X stealing  something from Z, nobody couldn't care less
that X and Z settle and never go to court.
Here we are talking about children being raped. I'd find it normal that even
(especially)  if the parents accept money, the police and social services
investigate about the case, for the sake of the child, for the sake of other
children.

> If your only evidence is someone who has been paid not to talk,

That's a start if you have the evidence that someone was paid to shut up.
That's a good reason to try to find out why.

>how can you have any hope at all of winning your case? It would just be a
waste of the
> government's money.

So if I kill a relative and I'm the only witness or if I agree with Jackson
to let him my teenage son as sex toy for a month or two, and take money to
shut up.  The police shouldn't lose their time on it ? Nobody should take me
to a trial ?

>And assuming "your country" refers to Japan,

No, it's France. Confession is what you do at church, not evidence for a
case. Before trials, there is investigation. Long before trials there are
routine controls. That's not always efficient (recent cases showed it), but
at least, there is something.

>most other developed countries are not generally in the habit of torturing
the accused
> until they give in and confess to the crime of which they have been
accused,

I guess the US is not most other countries.

Kuri