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Andrew and social services

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autumnfallingleaves · 01/11/2025 08:30

AIBU to wonder if social care have become involved with Andrew Mountbatten’s daughters and Grandchildren? And if not, why not?
he’s clearly a sex offender of a very young woman and I’m not sure but possibly a paedophile. I guess he’s not been charged with anything as yet so that probably answers my question. Just sitting here and thinking about how different life would be for him if he’d lived in an ordinary family

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RufustheFactuaIReindeer · 01/11/2025 11:18

Ah, you’re doing a Simon and trying to discredit what I’m saying by suggesting I’m personal besties with them? Hardly

its very obvious what they are doing 💐

TheignT · 01/11/2025 11:14

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 11:08

I mean, the one I assume the poster is thinking of may as well have had a sign around his neck. As we now know, it was very well known.

Well yes everyone knows now and they all knew then. Odd that so many watched his programmes and even applied to go on.

beatingandbearing · 01/11/2025 11:11

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 11:11

Don’t do this. She was clearly a traumatised woman desperately trying to live a ‘normal’ life. Don’t attack a dead victim, it’s really not a good look.

No, it isn’t Hmm

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 11:11

RosesAndHellebores · 01/11/2025 10:58

She also claimed to be dying and spoke from her "death" bed. I'd venture her information was never reliable.

Don’t do this. She was clearly a traumatised woman desperately trying to live a ‘normal’ life. Don’t attack a dead victim, it’s really not a good look.

beatingandbearing · 01/11/2025 11:08

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 11:07

Of course it happens in what appear to be ordinary families. Girls abused by their fathers and step-fathers and passed around their friends for sexual abuse.

He said that to me with no idea what my family are like and I will repeat he is an odious little man.

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 11:08

TheignT · 01/11/2025 11:03

Do you know any pedophiles? They don't come with a sign so you might not know.

I mean, the one I assume the poster is thinking of may as well have had a sign around his neck. As we now know, it was very well known.

AutumnalCrows · 01/11/2025 11:07

Andrew would have to investigated in order to be prosecuted.

Who is going to investigate him without the consent of the monarch? Starmer has passed the buck to Charles repeatedly. Charles would have to then admit they all knew, for a long time, including certain sections of the police & security services and former PMs.

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 11:07

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Of course it happens in what appear to be ordinary families. Girls abused by their fathers and step-fathers and passed around their friends for sexual abuse.

TheLocust · 01/11/2025 11:03

Only the monarch is exempt from prosecution, so if there were grounds and proof he would have been treated accordingly, like everyone else.

Very naive. Do you really think the police treat the royal family the same as everyone else?

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 11:03

Idontpostmuch · 01/11/2025 10:54

Not proved that he is a rapist. She said she'd been forced to have sex with him but not that he'd forced her. What he did was morally wrong, but unless he'd used physical force, not illegal. Only the monarch is exempt from prosecution, so if there were grounds and proof he would have been treated accordingly, like everyone else.

Do you think it can’t be rape if the victim is not held down and physically forced to have sex?

I think you need to do some research and reflection because you’re absolutely fucking wrong about this.

AutumnalCrows · 01/11/2025 11:03

Vaxtable · 01/11/2025 10:54

Why are people only blaming Andrew here? Supposedly there’s loads of men, why not challenge them

not saying he doesn’t deserve what’s happened, he does, but to say that he is a danger to his own grandchildren is a step to far

no where is there any proof he is a pedophile

People now need to start looking at all the other men involved in this

Why doesn’t Andrew reveal all?

TheignT · 01/11/2025 11:03

Elizabethandfour · 01/11/2025 11:01

Let’s not forget Charles was besties with a pedophile too. What are the chances?

Do you know any pedophiles? They don't come with a sign so you might not know.

kittywittyandpretty · 01/11/2025 11:02

You are kidding, I presume
We have a family member who served three years in prison for sexual assault on a minor over a seven year period. The wife stood by him. Later, It transpired that her daughter was also sexually assaulted by him.

They were given their grandchildren by social services when the mother who was also a victim of his sexual assault had a nervous breakdown.

Elizabethandfour · 01/11/2025 11:01

Let’s not forget Charles was besties with a pedophile too. What are the chances?

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 11:00

netflixfan · 01/11/2025 10:54

He was in an orgy with other men including Epstein, and many young girls under 16. His sexual boundaries are non existent it seems. I wouldn’t let him near my grandkids or any other children/young people if I could help it.

Neither would I and I hope he’s prosecuted as it appears he is as complicit as the traffickers themselves. He did not have consensual sex with a 17 year old if that 17 year old was trafficked, forced, coerced. Even if she appeared to consent, she didn’t.

His daughters need to be acting to protect their children from being around him because of his behaviour, his morals and values. Who knows what they really think now and I doubt we’ll ever know.

But, he is not accused of being a paedophile.
Social services could do very little in this case unless there is evidence that he poses a direct risk to young children.

LookAtMeWithStarryEyes · 01/11/2025 11:00

Teado · 01/11/2025 10:55

Virginia thought that some of the girls who participated in the orgies were as young as 12 but unless there’s evidence of that, he’s not a pedo.

And yes, ETA to agree that the net should be widened now so that the other powerful men are scrutinised. Trump, Clinton etc who should face questions before they die. It wasn’t just AMW as we know.

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It just means it hasn’t been proven, but if someone has sex with a young child, they are still a paedo.

TheignT · 01/11/2025 11:00

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I grew up in a notorious vice area, we practically had our own page in the news of the world. If social services wanted to investigate all the men involved they need an awful lot of social workers.

A school friends dad tried to solicit me when I was about 13, he didn't recognise me but I made sure I left school with her the following Monday when he was picking her up. His face was a picture. Very respectable family who lived in a nice area.

When I worked for the vice squad id see dads at the school gate when I was picking my kids up. Some of those dads had received cautions the night before for kerb crawling.

It happens in lots of families. Prostitutes targeted the streets round the local maternity hospital at the end of visiting time, they told me it was a very profitable "beat" which is awful but true.

Wives often have no idea, who knows on here if their husband has ever done it?

Lambington · 01/11/2025 10:59

Yanbu. Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell attended Princess Beatrice's 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle.
Strange none of the other Royals have ever mentoned this.

RosesAndHellebores · 01/11/2025 10:58

Teado · 01/11/2025 10:55

Virginia thought that some of the girls who participated in the orgies were as young as 12 but unless there’s evidence of that, he’s not a pedo.

And yes, ETA to agree that the net should be widened now so that the other powerful men are scrutinised. Trump, Clinton etc who should face questions before they die. It wasn’t just AMW as we know.

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She also claimed to be dying and spoke from her "death" bed. I'd venture her information was never reliable.

Teado · 01/11/2025 10:55

Virginia thought that some of the girls who participated in the orgies were as young as 12 but unless there’s evidence of that, he’s not a pedo.

And yes, ETA to agree that the net should be widened now so that the other powerful men are scrutinised. Trump, Clinton etc who should face questions before they die. It wasn’t just AMW as we know.

Vaxtable · 01/11/2025 10:54

Why are people only blaming Andrew here? Supposedly there’s loads of men, why not challenge them

not saying he doesn’t deserve what’s happened, he does, but to say that he is a danger to his own grandchildren is a step to far

no where is there any proof he is a pedophile

People now need to start looking at all the other men involved in this

Idontpostmuch · 01/11/2025 10:54

LookAtMeWithStarryEyes · 01/11/2025 09:34

The minimising is desperate. He has been all over the news because he is a rapist, was friends with sex traffickers and lied about it all.

Not proved that he is a rapist. She said she'd been forced to have sex with him but not that he'd forced her. What he did was morally wrong, but unless he'd used physical force, not illegal. Only the monarch is exempt from prosecution, so if there were grounds and proof he would have been treated accordingly, like everyone else.

netflixfan · 01/11/2025 10:54

He was in an orgy with other men including Epstein, and many young girls under 16. His sexual boundaries are non existent it seems. I wouldn’t let him near my grandkids or any other children/young people if I could help it.

Anxietybummer · 01/11/2025 10:50

Because the woman he’s accused of having sex with (statutory rape I presume given she was trafficked!) was not a child… and he’s not even been charged, therefore not convicted.

Ibizaonmymind · 01/11/2025 10:49

God, another absolutely pointless and ill informed thread.

What do people think social services are going to do about his adult daughters who don’t live with him?

He is also not accused of being a paedophile.

He’s a disgusting predator but there is absolutely no evidence that he is a paedophile which has a very specific definition that I wish people would actually try to understand instead of throwing it around constantly.