What are the BBC thinking??!

A girl in a leotard …
personally, I don’t see anything terrible, as she was with her Dad presumably she wasn’t a teen, just a young kid who had finished her dance class and calling in the supermarket for a snack most probably.
Girls have always worn short shorts, in my generation I remember turning waists over on skirts , shorts etc didn’t you FallingStar ?

Clothes rarely play a part in child abuse… opportunity does…. hence abuse is most often in the family or close neighbourhood

DrWatson

For the OP, YES, you certainly ARE making a fuss about nothing!

IF you want to blame the BBC, why not instead blame the PARENTS for sending kids out dressed (as YOU think) inappropriately? Why not launch a search so you can try and get them prosecuted?? Maybe THEY don't agree -- perhaps THEY have moved into the present century (give it a try perhaps??) and as several comments have said, girls for some time have been confident/liberated enough to wear what many of us would call 'skimpy' - and it's routine for them.

NB -- in just about every heatwave we've had, for 20 or 30 years, assorted TV companies send out camera crews to various 'baking' seaside vistas, with all manner of body parts on show that would be best covered up. HAVE YOU BEEN constantly complaining? If not, WHY NOT??

As another comment said, children are most at risk from neighbouring or family perverts, not voyeur strangers.

Are the shouty capitals really necessary looks like I am not the only one who can complain. At least my complaint wasn’t personal.
Perhaps you should take time to consider that we are all entitled to our opinions, and if the hot weather is bothering you for goodness sake suck a lolly!

Sago

The BBC don’t think but not do some parents, I was in Waitrose one Saturday morning and a man walked in with his daughter of about 12/13 in just a leotard.

Sago, sleeveless, I hope. Sounds quite sensible wear in this weather. What on earth did you think was wrong with this?

I am really at a loss to understand the naivety here.

I have worked with looked after children in a school setting and with a children’s rights participation team.
I know how vulnerable some of these young people are and how many predatory adults there are out there.

Seeing a young girl in a skin tight leotard with sprouting breasts and a ponytail in a busy supermarket on a Saturday morning is highly inappropriate imo.

I am not saying for one minute this child is going to be physically molested because of her appearance but she will be fulfilling someone’s fantasy.