Police investigate virtual sex assault on girl's avatar (www.bbc.co.uk)

While I do not contest there is a real trauma involved we cannot put in the same ballance the virtual abuse and the real one. No way! I understand your reaction. You are so right about children and women being abused and nothing being done about it. So many famous recent cases already of r*pists and p**ophiles walking free with enough proof to put them in jail for the rest of their lives or serve jail time for a very short time while real victims serve a life-time of trauma.
I don’t know, but It almost looks like a future excuse – “we don’t have the means to operate in the real world because we use it all in the cyber-space”
I also think there is also some kind of warning for the population. It says people need to do both detective work and take justice into their own hands because police is busy elsewhere when abuse happens in real life.