Wide range of child and adult abuse inquiries

This seedy couple - they're so English...!

(and he's got a fringe toupee on in a couple of the pictures)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4563414/Ex-BBC-presenter-60-denies-performing-sex-acts-boys.html

Abysmally poor taste calendars, too - who'd buy such an ugly thing?

I've put your post here Rosa as there's a link to this case on 20th February.

The calendar was for the Children in Need fund raiser - I've seen worse than that.

Why the age range of the boy here?

"Julie Wadsworth, 60, is accused of having sex with a boy aged between 14 and 18"

Surely, if he was over 16 and quite happy with whatever happened, this wouldn't be illegal?

The verdict on the last mentioned case.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40221782

I don't think that we've mentioned Bill Cosby before.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/bill-cosby-could-die-behind-bars-after-prosecutors-finish-case-at-sex-assault-trial/ar-BBCnNLM?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=mailsignout

Freedom wrote:I don't think that we've mentioned Bill Cosby before.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/bill-cosby-could-die-behind-bars-after-prosecutors-finish-case-at-sex-assault-trial/ar-BBCnNLM?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=mailsignout

This is what Pat Brown has to say about there being a mistrial.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/bill-cosby-mistrial-legal-experts-debate-how-happened-whats-next-1014472

This is a good example of why a statute of limitations should be in play with adult complainants. If an adult citizen doesn't believe at the time that behavior reaches the level of a crime that ought to be prosecuted and that what the perpetrator has done should should never be enacted on other human beings, than she/he shouldn't be able to come back years later and whine. Proof and memory disappears over time as well causing it to be difficult to evaluate what actually happened.
Is Bill Cosby guilty? I think he was unquestionably a horndog back in his day and he made use of the casting couch and quaaludes as was quite common back in the 70s. But, hey, the women and men trying to make it in Hollywood were not so naive as to not understand what a famous actor or big producer had in mind when they went to their parties or private domain and hung out with them and accepted drinks and drugs from them. And, if they come back later for more interaction with the guys, then they have make it pretty clear they are willing to do whatever those guys want in order to get whatever they want.
Sure, people in power can use their power , but that doesn't mean if someone gives in to their whims because they see something in it for themselves, they don't have a part in what occurred. It used to be called "prostituting" oneself for gain, but, now, one can do so and then come back and claim they were a victim years later as if they had no control over their own choices.
I think even more than a mistrial, the appropriate verdict should have been "not guilty" in spite of Cosby's shenanigans. I hope they do not try this case again.

...and what may then be unearthed?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/03/jersey-haut-de-la-garenne-childrens-home-should-be-demolished-report-says

Well worth a read.

Dark forces hoped the QC sex scandal would destroy my child abuse inquiry... and it almost did: Stunning admission by the fourth boss of the troubled historic paedophile probe

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4678490/QC-sex-scandal-ended-child-abuse-inquiry-Jay.html

Pat makes sense.  I`d better not say any more.

I agree with what she says, Mimi.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/music/former-member-calls-pussycat-dolls-a-prostitution-ring-we-were-all-abused/story-sXInATadEJbBJO8c0WvPSK.html


It was Mrs Kate who first introduced wee Madeleine to the PCD :

I’d bought a couple of girl-band CDs a few weeks earlier and we’d been having singalongs in the car to warm up for it. The memory of Madeleine, sitting in the back seat, singing her heart out along with the Pussycat Dolls still makes me laugh. And cry.

McCann, Kate. Madeleine: Our daughter's disappearance and the continuing search for her (Kindle Locations 1916-1918). Transworld. Kindle Edition.   


I reckon that grotty old bag-botherer Cuddlecat could be described as a pussycat doll.

I have wondered before about Kate's taste in music, thinking of the image that the PCD had - an unlikely choice for a 30 something mum, in my opinion, and totally unsuitable for a then two-year-old.

As for Harvey Weinstein, he sounds like the usual run-of-the-mill slime ball who has long existed in the entertainment industry.

Not that I'm a fan of George Bush Senior but this seems a bit OTT. Where did he touch her, for goodness sake?!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/former-president-george-h-w-bush-apologises-for-attempt-at-humour-after-actress-heather-lind-accuses-him-of-sexual-assault/ar-AAu0EXo?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout

OMG, these ditsy women.  They are undermining the seriousness of rape and those people who have really been traumatised.

All this feminism business has got out of hand - gosh when we were young the fellas were always pinching your bum and wolf whistling - they meant nothing by it and we just laughed and went on our way.  It was considered flattering if a fella whistled at you - it never went further.  Just males being males and females being females.  No one made a big deal out of it.  It`s part of the rituals of the sexes.

Another sorrowful story, this time of a boy from Hong Kong :

http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2107103/eurasian-who-went-british-boarding-school-1950s

'Abused - Breaking the Silence' is not available on Youtube

(it's the documentary about heinous molestation at Grace Dieu/St Michael's Soni)

- the link at the top left hand side of this link works for me though :


http://devrijecultureleruimte.nl/Group22.html


Highly recommended and bloody heart-breaking.

I saw that programme at the time. Here is an easier link.

https://vimeo.com/53945691

More claims about George Bush Senior.

He's of an age to remember when behaviour like this would have been considered acceptable; I certainly don't think that it is now though.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/two-more-women-accuse-george-hw-bush-of-groping/ar-AAu8BKI?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=mailsignout

I will probably get lambasted but really, this is just going to go on and on and on - it just cannot end, now Fallon has resigned, and Dustin Hoffman on the front of the papers...

.........and what about Kevin Spacey?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41829484

That's a great avatar by the way, Candyfloss.

I`m glad Fallon has gone but not for the reasons given.

I agree all this historic groping stuff has got beyond a joke - so what, Dustin Hoffman sexually harrassed a girl - yeah, so ?? ........ ooooh errr missus shock horror. I bet it was no more than a chat up line knowing how ridiculous this has got. Something along the lines of telling her how sexy she looked or what a good figure or a nice pair of legs she had.

Mimi wrote:I`m glad Fallon has gone but not for the reasons given.

Would you like to elaborate on that Mimi?

He was our constituency MP a long time ago; the last Tory one actually.

Thought perhaps we could do with a thread of its own on this as it looks as if it will go on and on.  I hope Freedom  (pretty please) could transfer some of the other posts on this here....


So now we have 2 MPs being looked into today......

Just breaking news........Tory MP Charlie Elphicke suspended by party after "serious allegations"


Labour suspends Luton North MP Kelvin Hopkins

Tim Fallon has resigned.

We knew about Kevin Spacey, but now being investigated by UK police..

Kevin Spacey: UK police investigate sexual assault claim

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41857327