Accrington Web - View Single Post

WillowTheWhisp · 03-03-2005, 15:46

How can you say it affects all families? That's a very sweeping statement. It hasn't affected my family.

Of course I am very pro my own children and if anyone did anything to hurt them it would hurt me. When my daughter was accidentally injured I felt anger towards the car driver. (more so when she claimed she was only doing 20mph and that my daughter ran in front of her but that's a thread wander) and no doubt if either of them were raped words wouldn't begin to describe how I would feel. If the attacker then only received a short prison sentence and was released back into the neighbourhood I'd not be at all pleased and I would certainly make sure everyone knew who he was and what he'd done.

I don't believe that would give me the right to do anything to him in retaliation however. That would put me in the wrong and what would be gained by that? My children wouldn't be helped by it and as someone else said, I'd probably end up in prison and so deprive them of the person they most needed. Where is the sense in that?

Initially I was referring to the attitude shown by some towards Maxine Carr because she didn't actually harm a child herself and to be baying for her blood is just not acceptable to me. She was stupid and naive yes, but she wasn't a child molestor or killer. That was her boyfriend and I believe he is paying the price.

If the school had been aware that he'd had previous tendencies would it have changed anything? Would he have found another way of preying on children? There are two different sorts of problem. Abuse within the family which is not likely to affect anyone outside of the family, and serial paedophiles who will repeatedly seek out young children to sexually abuse. Somehow we need to safeguard our children against the latter when they are released back into society because what is going to stop them doing it again? How do we protect children in family cases? I have no idea.

Have you seen the news item today where a convicted paedophile has £5,500 damages for stress caused by the length of time it took for the caase to come to trial? To add insult to injury most of those delays he caused himself! I am totally convinced that the world has gone mad.

03-03-2005, 15:46	#54
WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: sex pests ... How can you say it affects all families? That's a very sweeping statement. It hasn't affected my family. Of course I am very pro my own children and if anyone did anything to hurt them it would hurt me. When my daughter was accidentally injured I felt anger towards the car driver. (more so when she claimed she was only doing 20mph and that my daughter ran in front of her but that's a thread wander) and no doubt if either of them were raped words wouldn't begin to describe how I would feel. If the attacker then only received a short prison sentence and was released back into the neighbourhood I'd not be at all pleased and I would certainly make sure everyone knew who he was and what he'd done. I don't believe that would give me the right to do anything to him in retaliation however. That would put me in the wrong and what would be gained by that? My children wouldn't be helped by it and as someone else said, I'd probably end up in prison and so deprive them of the person they most needed. Where is the sense in that? Initially I was referring to the attitude shown by some towards Maxine Carr because she didn't actually harm a child herself and to be baying for her blood is just not acceptable to me. She was stupid and naive yes, but she wasn't a child molestor or killer. That was her boyfriend and I believe he is paying the price. If the school had been aware that he'd had previous tendencies would it have changed anything? Would he have found another way of preying on children? There are two different sorts of problem. Abuse within the family which is not likely to affect anyone outside of the family, and serial paedophiles who will repeatedly seek out young children to sexually abuse. Somehow we need to safeguard our children against the latter when they are released back into society because what is going to stop them doing it again? How do we protect children in family cases? I have no idea. Have you seen the news item today where a convicted paedophile has £5,500 damages for stress caused by the length of time it took for the caase to come to trial? To add insult to injury most of those delays he caused himself! I am totally convinced that the world has gone mad. __________________