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To think that Denise Fergus should have stayed at home?

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2blessed2bstressed · 23/07/2010 13:38

I don't understand why she (mum of Jamie Bulger) had to go and sit in court when John Venables was being sentenced for his more recent crime. I will never forget the horror of hearing what happened to her little boy, and I know that she will never get over it - but how can it possibly help her to keep appearing on tv and making statements about what happens now? She seems to feel she has a right to be told all about everything, and while I can sympathise with her opinion to a certain extent I don't know that she does really. I saw her being interviewed when he was arrested earlier in the year and she said she'd had to keep her children off school because of the publicity - but she seems to be generating a lot of it herself.
Please don't think me hard hearted, it's just that I don't get it.

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LadyBlaBlah · 25/07/2010 21:44

one trick pony ? what a cock you really are

And yes you were blaming her by saying if she had looked after him properly none of this would have happened

desanimaux · 25/07/2010 21:44

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AgentZigzag · 25/07/2010 21:45

Well you've badly worded your posts if you don't blame her...

'Maybe if Denise Fergus had been looking after her own child, like any reasonable parent would have been, this whole thing wouldn't have happened.'

'Ask staff in TJ Hughes, Liverpool, on that day, if James Bulger was supervised adequately.'

'She let him wander about unsupervised.'

'She was asked on several occasions to watch her child and she didn't.'

Bollocks, we can see what you meant.

SalFresco · 25/07/2010 21:45

I was going to ask for a link, but it is really irrelevent, and gives the impression your comments are in any way useful or insightful.

Do you also think that women who wear miniskirts are asking to be raped?

FallingWithStyle · 25/07/2010 21:46

One trick pony?

And yes, you did blame her.

What she wants, I should imagine, is to deal with her grief in whichever way she feels she can.

How on earth does that offend you?

desanimaux · 25/07/2010 21:46

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LadyBlaBlah · 25/07/2010 21:46

LOL @ your source

She was in a butchers shop cockhead

Rockbird · 25/07/2010 21:47

So because she took her eye off him for a moment, that justifies what happened to him? I see. And here was me thinking it was Thompson and Venables' faults...

desanimaux · 25/07/2010 21:48

I should imagine that all these newspaper deals help her immensely!

LadyBlaBlah · 25/07/2010 21:48

Bet your kids are real proud to have you as their mum - you being a proper mum and that

AgentZigzag · 25/07/2010 21:48

If. you. had. two. braincells. you. would. be. dangerous. Fact.

FallingWithStyle · 25/07/2010 21:48

Good point Ladyblablah.

Rockbird · 25/07/2010 21:49

Absolutely, spot on! That we should all be so lucky as to have our toddlers murdered so that we might get a few quid from the papers. God almighty.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 25/07/2010 21:49

Maybe we could suggest to the parents of all murdered children that if they had been supervising them more closely their children would still be alive. I'm sure they would be grateful for the input. Nice! I mean let's not think for one minute that the only people to blame when a child is abducted and harmed is the perpetrators.

SalFresco · 25/07/2010 21:49

I said the thing about miniskirts based on your comments here but have just read your post on the school skirts thread and realised I was right.

wukter · 25/07/2010 21:50

It's a fair swap - newspaper deals for son's life. All's well that ends well, eh Desanimaux?

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noddyholder · 25/07/2010 21:51

How do you know all this?

FallingWithStyle · 25/07/2010 21:51

What an utter crock.

Nancy66 · 25/07/2010 21:52

Most of the money she earns from interviews goes to the charity she set up.

Rockbird · 25/07/2010 21:52

Even if she had left him in the bike racks and gone for a coffee do you seriously think that the poor little mite deserved to be tortured and killed??? Do you think that's a suitable punishment for taking your eye off your kid?

desanimaux · 25/07/2010 21:52

LadyBlahblah
Well, I'll never let them wander round dept stores while I chat n shop, so......yep! Guess they are lucky in that way!

FallingWithStyle · 25/07/2010 21:54

Sources?

No...funny that

desanimaux · 25/07/2010 21:54

Rockbird
No, of COURSE it's not a suitable fucking punishment!

AgentZigzag · 25/07/2010 21:54

Good point rockbird, if it was Denises fault to not keep her lad stuck to her side and you think she deserved her fate, is it the lads fault for wandering off Desanimaux?

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