Father of schoolgirl lover of Jeremy Forrest wants to shake his hand say thanks

Daily Fail strikes again.

I don't think it's exactly good parenting to encourage a man old enough to be her father to engage in sexual activity with your underage daughter, and then to congratulate him for it.

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HopefulMidwife

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I'm unsure on where I stand with this issue, but I think he has been unfairly vilified.

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Farm_Ecology

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This is why I dislike the media fanfare around court cases. None of this is any of the publics business.

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2ndClass

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I'm sure every dad would be proud to have a homewrecking whore that consensually sleeps with paedos.

The only person I feel sorry in this whole story is the guy's wife.

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Original post by Messalina

I don't think it's exactly good parenting to encourage a man old enough to be her father to engage in sexual activity with your underage daughter, and then to congratulate him for it.

Why not? I don't see an issue if everyone consents.

Inb4 "she can't consent", of course she can she was 15 not 5.

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manchesterunited15

Original post by 2ndClass

I'm sure every dad would be proud to have a homewrecking whore that consensually sleeps with paedos.

The only person I feel sorry in this whole story is the guy's wife.

He's not a paedo

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2ndClass

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Original post by manchesterunited15

He's not a paedo

ok

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Original post by Tabzqt

Why not? I don't see an issue if everyone consents.

Inb4 "she can't consent", of course she can she was 15 not 5.

But legally she can't consent. She's underage. Even if she was leaping around in her underwear screaming "**** ME" it doesn't count as consent. That's the law, soz.

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manchesterunited15

Original post by 2ndClass

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As a medical diagnosis, pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in persons 16 years of age or older typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest toward prepubescent children (generally age 11 years or younger, though specific diagnosis criteria for the disorder extends the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13).

She was 15.

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Original post by Messalina

But legally she can't consent. She's underage. Even if she was leaping around in her underwear screaming "**** ME" it doesn't count as consent. That's the law, soz.

Law doesn't equal morality. There's a lot of things in law that I disagree with, and I'm sure you disagree with too...

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2ndClass

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Original post by manchesterunited15

As a medical diagnosis, pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in persons 16 years of age or older typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest toward prepubescent children (generally age 11 years or younger, though specific diagnosis criteria for the disorder extends the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13).

She was 15.

I'm sure we've only hit the tip of the iceberg with him. Especially with the revelations that he began to groom a girl when she was only 13. He has an unhealthy fixation with young girls.

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Original post by Tabzqt

Law doesn't equal morality. There's a lot of things in law that I disagree with, and I'm sure you disagree with too...

Due to the fact that other women have come forward and said that he behaved inappropriately to them while they were underage, I'm not inclined to like the bloke. I think any man in this thirties who starts a relationship with a 14 year old has got serious issues, especially when he was in a position of trust.

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manchesterunited15

Original post by 2ndClass

I'm sure we've only hit the tip of the iceberg with him. Especially with the revelations that he began to groom a girl when she was only 13. He has an unhealthy fixation with young girls.

Even 13 is puberty in the vast majority of cases.

Nothing else has been proven (as far as I know), so innocent until proven guilty.

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Original post by Messalina

Due to the fact that other women have come forward and said that he behaved inappropriately to them while they were underage, I'm not inclined to like the bloke. I think any man in this thirties who starts a relationship with a 14 year old has got serious issues, especially when he was in a position of trust.

Sure, he behaved inappropriately. But he is innocent until proven guilty. You can't say he would have had sex with those girls because he didn't. You can only judge him on what he did do. And what did he do? Entered a consensual relationship with a girl just shy of the legal age. I don't think it's a huge crime, and it certainly didn't deserve five and a half years.

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Original post by Tabzqt

Sure, he behaved inappropriately. But he is innocent until proven guilty. You can't say he would have had sex with those girls because he didn't. You can only judge him on what he did do. And what did he do? Entered a consensual relationship with a girl just shy of the legal age. I don't think it's a huge crime, and it certainly didn't deserve five and a half years.

He's not innocent until proven guilty, he's been proven guilty and charged. And the relationship started when she was 14, not exactly "just shy" of the legal age. He could have waited, and avoided all this, but he was either too stupid or too selfish to do that. Sleeping with underage girls is a crime, end of. I'm still not sure why he wasn't charged with statutory rape as well, I guess you could take that as some nice leeway. Either way I have faith in the justice system and I'm sure the judge has a far better idea of what went on than the media's speculation.

**** the daily mail.

The main thing that I object to is the fact that in most pictures he's a relatively weaselly-faced individual with an awful smirk.

There's one picture of him strumming on a guitar where he's trying to be 'all sensitive' but, apart from that, only the opportunity that was afforded to him by his position of trust at school could explain why any young girl would want to spend any time getting to know him. Most would probably not cross the street.

So due to his own lack of natural charisma, he has 'abused' the opportunity given to him by a school to teach students.

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