Jimmy Savile 'household name' sweep

[SueEllen]

Adam Johnson guilty of child sex charge - BBC News

He's going to get a prison sentence.

[SlipTheJab]

Adam Johnson guilty of child sex charge - BBC News

He's going to get a prison sentence.

How very noble of him to protest his innocence for a year enabling him to trouser 60 grand a week before admitting he was flogging a dead horse on the first day of his trial and then getting sacked by his club, hopefully Sunderland will sue him for that as well.

[MarillionFan]

Adam Johnson guilty of child sex charge - BBC News

He's going to get a prison sentence.

Meh. 15. Hardly abuse.

[SueEllen]

Meh. 15. Hardly abuse.

You need to get your head around when someone is a child and someone isn't.

According to our laws she is and the fact that jury thought so means she clearly is.

[MarillionFan]

You need to get your head around when someone is a child and someone isn't.

According to our laws she is and the fact that jury thought so means she clearly is.

1970's she'd have been telling all her mates about it, getting patted on the back and how lucky she was. He'd been bragging about his schooly, Sid James would be laughing about it, there'd be a St Trinians film about.


Fast forward 40 years, where 15 years old are bigger, more mature and sexually experienced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginity, with over 1/3 of 15 years old already sexually experienced, and all of a sudden everyone's a peado after 'children'.


The definition of 16 as a child is nonsensical. We have one of the highest rates of underage pregnancy and one of the lowest ages for losing virginity.
I suggest you wise up and get off this ridiculous witchhunt looking for child abusers.


The law needs to change.

[clearedforlanding]

MF, you are an idiot. A 28 year old admits to grooming a 15 year old and you find that acceptable?

Perhaps Le droit du seigneur exists on fictive flights?

[SueEllen]

1970's she'd have been telling all her mates about it, getting patted on the back and how lucky she was. He'd been bragging about his schooly, Sid James would be laughing about it, there'd be a St Trinians film about.

You clearly missed what this thread is about.

I suggest you start reading it from the beginning before you dig yourself a bigger hole.

[MarillionFan]

You clearly missed what this thread is about.

I suggest you start reading it from the beginning before you dig yourself a bigger hole.

I'm not digging a hole. I'm saying it as it is.


But the whole witchhunt has become ridiculous.


Tony Blackburn who was about 22/23 for example is accused of shagging a 15 year old who was up for it 40 years ago. Nobody would have blinked an eyelid then, but in todays witchhunt world he's should be hung out for it, while in truth, these days 15/16 years old are more mature than they were 40 years ago.


Basically the age of consent is to high, and on borderline cases such as this one where it's a willing partner, it's not what we should call child abuse.

[Troll]

You need to get your head around when someone is a child and someone isn't.

According to our laws she is and the fact that jury thought so means she clearly is.

Just think back to your youth and recall the age when some male (or female) first got his (or her) hands on your bits

Was it perchance before 16 - the age of consent or before 18 - the actual definition of a child?

Considering there was no penetration I'm finding it hard to understand the hysteria around this stupid infatuated teenager behaving foolishly with an older man (who should have known better)

[MarillionFan]

Just think back to your youth and recall the age when some male (or female) first got his (or her) hands on your bits

Was it perchance before 16 - the age of consent or before 18 - the actual definition of a child?

Considering there was no penetration I'm finding it hard to understand the hysteria around this stupid infatuated teenager behaving foolishly with an older man (who should have known better)

We've become appalled at the fact our youngsters are bombarded with pornography through the internet, through magazines, are sexually more advanced and knowledgeable than we were at those ages, but decide to say they're innocent kids who need to be protected and that when our sexual awakenings happened when we were kids with little knowledge, then that must have been abuse.


It's bollocks.