Tuesday, 6 August 2013

An unbelievable example of victim blaming

I have just listened to the news headlines and I am still reeling with disgust at what I have just heard.   41 year old paedophile, Neil Wilson, has been given a suspended sentence for sexual activity with a 13 year old child because, and I quote the judge here, she ‘led him on’. I cannot express my disgust at this enough.


I have a daughter who is thirteen very soon.  She is very much a child, just like every other thirteen year old. The judge said the child had been ‘egging on’ her abuser and the prosecutor, Robert Colover described her as ‘sexually experienced’.  Isn’t a sexually experienced child an already abused child?  Doesn’t that make her vulnerable rather than predatory? I really am at a loss as to how this idiot of a judge has ever been allowed the privilege of doing the job he is doing.  Does he not even understand very basics of child sex abuse?  Has he never heard of grooming? What a stupid ignorant man.  How can a person who is in a position of power hold such dangerous beliefs?  Victims of abuse are not the perpetrators! Abused, vulnerable, thirteen year old girls who have been groomed by paedophiles are not sexual predators. 




That judge, at the very least, needs to learn about child protection, but in an ideal world would never again be allowed to deal out ‘justice’ and Neil Wilson, the 41 year predatory paedophile who preyed on a vulnerable child, well he deserves as severe a punishment as possible. I hope he gets it.  

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