Oxfam management should pay for sins

Dear Sir,

I take issue with your most recent editorial about the sexual abuse at Oxfam, and your comparison with the obscene goings-on in the football league.

While agreeing with your comments about the need for more accountability of staff working with young aspiring footballers, I don't think Oxfam can get off as lightly as you suggest.

Going into another country to help them is praiseworthy though not if your behaviour there is amoral and illegal.

Using people who are vulnerable in this way, whatever excuses alent at the time and needs to be stamped out.

Charities are wholly dependent on public money for their efforts and these actions undermine the whole ethos of the sector despite the sterling work it does.

Funds raised should always be used for their intended purpose but in this instance resources to maintain the integrity of the organisation should have taken priority.

This is a serious oversight of the management of Oxfam that should be made to pay for its actions.

Yours faithfully,

(DR) PETER HIRST

Middlewich.