How can I stop thinking about a distressing news article? *trigger warning*

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I’ve just read a news article about an absolutely horrific case of child abuse by a teacher called Jamie Varley. If you haven’t read anything about it please don’t, as I desperately wish I hadn’t.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can scrub this from my brain or stop thinking about it? I know the world is a cruel place but this is probably one of the worst things I’ve read and I need it out of my head.

Trouble is there have been miscarriages of justice such as Stefan Kiszko and Timothy Evans.

Has anyone been wrongly convicted for paedophilia? How would that even happen?

Just read today the jury has been discharged in this case… no reason given. I agree they both deserve th death penalty for each they did to that poor child so it worries me when something like this happens..

I've posted before about the glorifying of violence within prisons but I know its boring and it doesnt satisfy the taste for blood but it's a terrible idea. I'm mixed on the death penalty but prison murder isnt it because I have limited faith in how good the people in prison are

Its never for the reasons you hope. When Ian Watkins was killed, I commented on a thread that it would be something petty by another monster. People were celebrating on threads and calling for the murder to get his sentenced reduced or celebrating him, then it turns out it was a drug debt from a bloke who murdered his pregnant partner (irc?)

Its normally over pot noodles, drugs or something else in the prison economy. At best it's some other horrendous person looking to gain fame.

No one person should get to decide who lives or dies especially not prison officers. I've seen prison officers allow people to get hurt for all manor of petty slights and simply because they dont like them. The idea of someone's father in law deciding it makes my blood run cold. Prison officers get easily corrupted by a god complex, I've seen horrendous retaliations for tiny slights, but also officers buddying up with terrible people.

Deciding death penalty by jury or on a state basis is different from dave doing it because a prisoner has looked at him funny

Stefan Kiszko was wrongly convicted of murder of a little girl and semen was on her clothes. This is how he was treated in prison.

You are very keen for your feelings to be heard on this thread. We have heard them.

I think the need for vengeance is a natural reaction, particularly when the state is so soft on crime. You can dislike that feeling in yourself and you can have a distaste for that feeling in others, but your dislike won’t change people’s want for the perpetrator of the worst crimes known to humanity to suffer in the same way that their victims did.

I really don’t want a thread about the murder of a baby ti to be taken over with stupid posts repeating ‘we hear you.’ It is adding nothing to the thread at all and it’s an attempt to shut me up. The only one desperate to be heard here is you.

Why would it be so unlikely? People get wrongly convicted of all sort of things - look at Andrew Malkin - served 17 years for a rape he didn't commit, convicted because the victim wrongly identified him as her rapist. If he'd been murdered in prison no one would ever have known he was wrongly convicted and the actual rapist would never have been found but many of the posters on this thread would no doubt have considered it a great outcome.

And yet here you are talking about yourself again.

There's no doubt in this particular case though is there? Because the bastard took photos and videos. A lot of them do.

I think it's just a natural way of channelling our anger and disgust and not entirely 'serious'. I didn't celebrate when the other monsters were killed in prison, but I wasn't sad that they died and I won't give a second thought to violence meted out on people like them; why should I?

I was delighted when Ian Huntley died and even more happy when that Lost Prophets bastard was gone. It annoys me when people post ‘not every hero wears capes’ though as invariably we find out that the prisoner that killed was also a fucking lunatic.

Yeah, I’m tired and the country is skint so I’m out of fucks I’m afraid.
I don’t care if they die by lethal injection or Dave from block D. Same result, and they can’t rape and murder anymore children on their inevitable release.
Sorry not sorry.

Same here. It kept popping in my head while I was trying to meditate. Utterly horrific.

It is quite unbelievable that anyone would go through the stress and intrusive nature of adopting a beautiful child then within three months dead from abuse and sexual assault. Also these freaks really make it easy for a conviction documented pictures videos all there to be seen and not just these latest ones. Star Hobson Arther Labinjo Hughes and in those cases as this one another freak going along with the abuse.
I’m out of fucks too who cares if they die 🤷‍♀️ Why was the jury dismissed yesterday ?

Why were two men allowed to adopt a 9 month old baby?

Sour sweets can work for panic attacks as well

I used to work in a child protection department, and realised that adults sometimes abuse children, all ages, in so many different ways.

It wasn’t just men - women sometimes colluded or joined in.

It’s a sad world at times. 🙁

I was replying to the person whose FIL left the doors open of some prisoners in the past, not talking about this case. Pointing out there had been wrongly convicted people attacked in prison.

The jury has been discharged due to legal reasons, so a new trial will start on Monday.

Yes @BurgerqueenbeeI was absolutely traumatised by this case. It really made me think about how on earth can it be possible for something to absolutely horrifying for one person yet be enjoyable to another, how can we both be human!!

This case has also stuck with me, I have a little boy a similar age. That poor, poor little boy. Absolutely abhorrent.