It has been on the news the last couple of days that a woman 'Jacqui' has been awarded nearly half a million pounds in compensation for having a baby with a deep undercover Police Officer.
Apparently he was part of team created to infiltrate protest groups back in the mid 80s and she was one of the activists under investigation.
According to the BBC report, fellow former SDS officer Peter Francis told Radio 4's Today programme that sex was "used by almost everybody who was serving in that unit".
He added that undercover officers were "expected, not ordered" to "engage in relationships" and that while there was no policy on becoming involved in sexual relations, there was "no policy saying that you couldn't either".
Now I have read the report a few times and can see no mention of a gun being held to Jacqui's head forcing her to have sex.
There is no mention of her having a gun held to head forcing her to keep the child.
The sex was obviously consensual.
To all intents and purposes, Jacqui had a relationship with a man, didn't marry him but had his child and he then disappeared. Unfortunately, this is not an unusual occurrence.
So why is this pay out of taxpayers' money justified?