Protecting the perp.
Can’t wait for all the retractions and apologies.
There is no perp. This 10 year old doesn’t exist.
The Left is in a very tenuous situation here. If they don’t report as they’re required, their hero doctor is likely to face charges for failure to report. If they do, and they can’t find a perp, it starts to become a snowball of lies. Protecting a child rapist is abominable, and any attempt to ask for public calm or acceptance is going to be met with swift political revulsion.
Try as they might, they’ll never normalize paedophilia. They’re trying really hard through alternative means, but direct addressing of this is going to get real messy, real quick.