Remembering Amber Gibson

The caters will have thought they could safely house the brother, if the sister wasn't there. They will have been told that she'll be safer elsewhere.

ie the sister always comes second to the brothers need. He clearly should have been somewhere more institutional, whilst she would have blossomed in a family home. Instead the family home was seconded to migate his issues.

I suspect it was the authorites more than the family who pulled this sexist stunt.

Why would they offer to take on a "problem" when they could manipulate it so someone else had the responsibility.

Dont forget Amber was warned by staff where she was placed not to meet her brother. This clearly shows they were aware of the danger.

The caters will have thought they could safely house the brother, if the sister wasn't there. They will have been told that she'll be safer elsewhere.

They'll be devastated that they failed to keep them safe. They'll remember the protective but traumatised little boy he used to be.

That amber suffered at the hands of four separate, violent abusive men in her little life is beyond words.

May he never be released.

Poor girl

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Thinking of you, Amber. What a tragic waste of a life.

If you dont mind going to the DM they have a link to the Judge passing sentence:

'The last person Amber Gibson saw alive was you, her brother, having strangled the life out of her. What you did was truly evil'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12477621/Man-sexually-assaulted-murdered-sister-Amber-Gibson-faces-life-prison-set-sentenced.html

Amber Gibson's brother jailed for life for killing teenager

A man who sexually assaulted and murdered his 16-year-old sister in a park in Hamilton has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years.

Amber Gibson's body was found in Cadzow Glen on 28 November 2021, two days after she was last seen.

Connor Gibson, 21, strangled Amber then got rid of his clothes and called the children's home where Amber was staying to pretend she was still alive.

The judge, Lord Mulholland, described his crimes as truly evil.

Gibson was jailed for life, and must serve at least 22 years before he can apply for parole.

Another man, who was found guilty of interfering with Amber's body, was jailed for nine years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66706036

Well its a small mercy in the midst of every aspect of this young women's life being so indescribably horrible, that the Judge didn't invoke the poor boy he was under 25 so not really responsible.

RIP Amber

Jesus Christ. This does not reflect well on men.

This is horrific too. Amber’s father, a violent rapist convicted of 10 offences against women and children, was sentenced to just 10 years jail after years of predatory assaults. He could be out in half that time. There’s no deterrent effect.

They seem to have been happy housing a predatory rapist.

Exactly and knowing that they still said she was the one who should move out of a home and into an (unsafe) institution.

They seem to have been happy housing a predatory rapist.

It's absolutely psychopathic and just chills me to the bone. I hope his sentence is significant. I really wouldn't want to see a man capable of that on the streets ever again.

Amber was subjected to so much male violence in such a short time. Poor, poor girl.

And to see the rapist that has just been convicted had addiction issue from the age of nine? It's all almost impossible to comprehend.

Maybe it’s wrong, but I think I’m as horrified at the man who assaulted her after death as I am at her brother. What kind of human would ever see a murdered girl and think to do something like that?! I hope that Stephen Corrigan faces serious repercussions for what he did.

What an horrific time she had. Just heartbreaking. RIP Amber.

I do feel like they sold her down the river to appease her brother...

Exactly - how could they do that.

And the horror of knowing that people at the last residence she was at said not to go and meet her brother.

So they all knew and she was still the one left to navigate a hostile system that allowed predatory men access to vulnerable women.

The man sentenced today raped her while she was asleep and had raped another woman when she was drunk.

Everybody knows, the system knows, that women are vulnerable to predatory men and they continue to give men the freedom to be near women. They never ever think they should protect women. Its almost like a few decades ago when the police and other authorities would write off partner violence as "just another domestic".

I do feel like they sold her down the river to appease her brother...

I just cant understand why she was sent to a children's home and her brother got to stay with the foster family. They must have known she would be more vulnerable in a situation like that.

I suspect Social Services said it would be much easier to find an alternative placement for her. What foster home or children's home wants to take on a 16/17 year old boy with a history of aggression towards younger children in his previous placement? When they could have the victimised child instead?

RIP Amber.

It's unbearably sad. I wish she'd had a chance at a good life. I'm glad that the perps who abused and raped her are in prison now.

I cannot believe what I have read! Raped 5 months before her death by a boy, then separately raped and murdered by her own brother, only to then be sexually assaulted after her death by another unrelated man. How bloody horrendous and depraved!!! Poor girl. RIP

Poor, poor Amber. It's just the most tragic story. Abused and mistreated her entire life and even after her death.

Like you @JeannieDark I don't really know what to say but I'm glad this post exists.

It was very moving to read her foster family talk about how loving and positive she was despite all the hardships she had suffered. I wish she could have had a better life.

Described as “the most giving, loving, supportive and admirable” young girl, Amber had shown hints of great promise. Although she had experienced immense suffering, she harboured an “amazing outlook” on life and loved art and singing, her loved ones said.

Terrible, terrible. That poor child.

Christ.

'Amber revealed she had been attacked while in a supported accommodation unit in Blantyre.'

Are they not supervised? How can a vulnerable girl be put in this position, at risk. Fucking hell.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-66438515

This poor girl. What a horrific time she had. RIP Amber.

So tragic. They knew her brother was a risk. She should have been better protected in the inaccurately called "care". Failed by a society that does not punish men soon enough and allows them to escalate