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undercover police fathering children with women they're spying on is treachery beyond belief.

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alicethehorse · 20/01/2012 22:16

Story here Undercover police had children with activists

"Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring ...

"In both cases, the children have grown up not knowing that their biological fathers ? whom they have not seen in decades ? were police officers who had adopted fake identities to infiltrate activist groups. Both men have concealed their true identities from the children's mothers for many years"

What a monumental abuse of trust Angry

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MrsTerryPratchett · 21/01/2012 20:07

At the time I was called paranoid for believing that the Police had files on CND and Greenpeace members. How naive I was. And, can someone explain how we are paranoid (upthread) for distrusting authority figures but these women were supposed to know that these men were up to no good even though they were being professionally lied to?

QuacksForDoughnuts · 21/01/2012 20:14

I knew one of the officers concerned. We were part of the same community for several years. You don't know how horrifying it is until you've been there, and I say this as one of the people who was least affected out of the relevant group.

@HungryHelga, animal rights was one of the motivating factors in the assassination of Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands a few years ago. Apart from that, animal rights activists have never killed anyone. unlike crappy data wrongly extrapolated to humans from animal studies

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/01/2012 20:28

Thanks for posting, Quacks it must have been awful.

alicethehorse · 22/01/2012 12:17

Quacks I'm so sorry you were caught up with this, I can't imagine how betrayed you must feel.

I spent a lot of time in the free party scene during the 90s and we were pretty sure we had undercover police amongst us, but AFAIK we never came up against this kind of thing. It's such an unforgivable betrayal.

I'm also sorry that you've had to read some of the vile comments on this thread. Those people really aren't worth paying attention to, I hope you're able to ignore them.

I'd love to ask you lots of questions, but it's only my own curiosity so I won't. I expect talking about this in a public forum when there are still legal matters unfolding probably isn't a good idea!

I hope you know that there are lots of us here who support you.

If there's anything we can do to help, please let us know.

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MAYBELATERNOWIMBUSY · 03/02/2012 21:07

SO, 2 REDUCE THIS TO THE BASICS, 2 ADULTS HAD SEX AND BROUGHT 2 THIS PLANET A CHILD, WELL I NEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALL J.KYLE

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 03/02/2012 22:24

My, the empathy. Raising a thread just to shout that.

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