It tolls for thee.

Just who is responsible for the deaths of these young women in the Ipswich area? Well, obviously, the person who killed them (by the way, as it appears that they had not been sexually assaulted, has anyone considered the possibility that the killer may be a woman? It would be very unusual, I agree, but just a thought). But does the responsibility go any further than that? Why were these women "on the game"? Was it because they were desperate to get money to feed their drug habit? Why were they plying their trade in dark, dangerous, secluded places? Was it the result of deliberate policing policy to drive them away from well-lit, public areas? Our laws as regards drugs and prostitution are driven by a moral imperative which says that both are "wrong" and therefore to be eradicated, or at the very least made as difficult as possible. All very well, but if our laws had not been framed in that way, these young girls might not have found it necessary to adopt that lifestyle, and might well still be alive. So just who is responsible?