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There are some walks of life which attract perverts like moths to a flame - the church, Westminster, and aid agencies to name just three.

In all of them you find people with power exploiting for their own pleasure those without, causing incredible damage not just to their victims but to public faith in the institutions they serve.

Oxfam is scrabbling to cover its arse over allegations that not only did 7 of its staff cavort in "Caligula-style orgies" with under-age prostitutes in a disaster zone, but that it tried to cover it up.

There's no such thing as an under-age prostitute. They are victims of child sexual abuse, plain and simple, and it's not what any of us want Oxfam to get up to or ignore.

It beggars belief that in a disaster zone where an earthquake killed 100,000 people in 60 seconds, where towns reduced to rubble were rife with violence, looting and cholera, anyone felt the best way of fixing it was habituating girls to sex work in return for a few grubby dollars.

Aid minister Penny Mordaunt has threatened to withhold £32m of state funding from the charity, saying: "If they don't hand over all the information they have, then I can't work with them anymore."

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Now let's ask ourselves what government ministers usually do about this sort of thing.

If it was found the vulnerable were abused in a church, the priest would be questioned, the congregation quizzed, the victims heard.

If the hierarchy were found to have covered it up, no government minister would suggest cancelling the state funding for that church which comes in the shape of tax breaks and subsidised faith schools.

In fact they'd go out of their way to point out it's just a handful of bad people among thousands of good ones.

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Now imagine some organisations widely considered to be corrupt, to operate at the edges of human decency and who exploit the developing world in a way that spreads misery.

No government demands tougher regulation to stamp it out or that they "hand over all the information they have". No, they invite the bankers to dinner instead.

And when a man boasted of sexually abusing women was caught out saying "grab them by the pussy, you can do anything!" was elected to the White House, did Theresa May say "I can't work with them any more" or say he'd abdicated his "moral leadership"?

Did she hell.

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Governments of every stripe have handed out multi-million pound contracts to charities with few questions asked in order to hit targets and make up for those things it refuses to do itself.

As the Carillion collapse showed so well, it leads to waste and sloppiness. While the men who orchestrated those orgies are the only ones to blame for them, there are a thousand politicians who facilitated it by throwing good money after bad in the chase for headlines.

If you're one of those politicians, the solution is not to fix the system but to blame someone else. And these charities which have faced few government demands until now have also spent a decade criticising the Tories.

In 2016 an Oxfam study shamed Britain as one of the world's 10 richest countries which took in less than a tenth of refugees. Last June it claimed that "millions of UK families are on a tightrope" and had been in poverty for 3 years out of 4.

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In 2013 the British Red Cross started distributing food parcels in the UK for the first time since the Second World War. A year ago Christian Aid demanded Theresa May end the secrecy of British tax havens in overseas territories. And only a fortnight ago Save the Children warned mums were missing out on millions in a childcare system that was stacked against them.

The Tories demanded a Big Society take responsibility for the things they set about destroying; when they do so, they don't like it.

So it is with undisguised delight that Tories are now turning on those charities, fuelled by new figures showing Oxfam recorded 87 allegations of sexual misconduct between 2016 and March 2017, and 53 of them were referred to police.

Save the Children had 31, a third of which were forwarded to cops, Christian Aid reported 2, and the Red Cross admitted "a small number of cases of harassment reported in the UK".

Those 4 charities have a total of 5,260 staff and tens of thousands of volunteers. That's a rate of sexual misconduct allegations somewhere below 2%, which compares favourably to the 27% of Theresa May's cabinet who have been accused of the same.

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Charities aren't the most deviant organisations on Earth. They're just the easiest ones to kick this week.

And in an increasingly tribal and divided world, it seems if you're Labour you kick the rich perverts of the President's Club and if you're Tory you say it was fine because they were making donations while groping young women.

And when the Tories kick Oxfam for groping young women while spending donations, the Reds say it's not so bad because charity. No-one, anywhere on the political spectrum, asks why sex abuse still happens in the 21st century, in so many walks of life, and what can be done to stop it.

None of us are any better for this. Haiti, meanwhile, has 40% unemployment, 58% poverty, and 2.5m people still in need of humanitarian aid.

Aid which, today, people are demanding they not be given because it suits a wider political ideology. The only thing more sickening than sex abuse are those people who use it to settle a score.

If they win, those women in Haiti will be even worse off - and yet more disgracefully exploited - than they already are.