Hello @freedompains, I saw your reply but could not respond to it directly, like you said it was 'beyond the nesting limit of steemit'.
There's an open letter about the Docherty case here and it sums up the case very well -- however, leaving questions unanswered due to stonewalling by Irish, Scottish, and UK officials. There were no other witnesses to the offer to buy the child, just the father and the alleged perpetrator. His name was mentioned somewhere but I don't remember in which video or audio interview. I think it would have been put into court records at some point. They probably would not have enough evidence to prosecute the perpetrator, however the authorities are doing everything possible to cover up the facts. I think it was also reported that he is a middle aged man living with two teenage boys not related to him. The perp was possibly a former employee of Police Scotland. The only explanation seems to be that the authorities are protecting the perp. Perp may have info about other government officials. It is often the case that one member of a pedo ring will threaten to bring down the whole ring if he is allowed to be prosecuted. He also made a statement to the father (Brian Docherty) that he (the perp) would not be denied access to the child. He did not state what would happen if he were denied but it was an obvious threat. Your other question 'How can this happen?'. This is the question for the authorities, and we need to keep asking them at every opportunity and demanding answers. Also, think about why the BBC will not even mention this case. The BBC is 100% funded by government and corporations so the answer seems pretty obvious and they need to be pressured as well.
You should definitely write a post about this and detail what people can do from home to help.
You could lay out the process of contacting the appropriate people to pressure. Listing the right contact details and possibly a template to use.
This needs exposure and like you said more people need to demand an answer.
It seems impossible to get exposure on Steemit unless you are part of the main crowd, or trying to get in, or by spending money. This place has people with much more influence over things then everyone else, and sounded cool at first, but is feeling like a popularity contest.
But at least the post will be part of the blockchain and won't disappear.
I have given some thought to posting directly about this. Ideally, it would be put up as an introduceyourself by someone involved in the case; either the Dochertys themselves or David Scott who is doing the open source investigation.
Meanwhile I definitely will keep interjecting it in conversations online or off.