BBC, Waterloo Road and Paedophilia

[Helpyourself]

I'm too cross to phrase this as an AIBU.
What on earth are they thinking of? Plot line where a teenager makes a false allegation. This week of all weeks.

What do you mean 'this week of all weeks?'

Children go missing every day in the UK. Just very few of them hit the headlines.

The plotline will have been written and filmed long in advance.

I'm not sure what you think they've done wrong.

Plus, Maddie is 37 17/18 so hardly paedophilia.

I did think it was a bit ill-timed.

And it wasn't exactly handled very well. It gave the impression thr school girls hit on teachers then lie about it and it isn't a big deal. There was no suggestion of it being reported. As was pointed out, he wasn't exactly fighting her off

you cant really compare the two situations

They would have filmed it ages ago though.

Is Maddie the person in waterloo road? I don't watch it, but I'm assuming the op is posting in relation to April.

Ah, no, in relation to Megan. I understand now.

I was also thinking it was related to April, silly me!

and possibly also in relation to the BBC's own apparent blind eye turned to Jimmy Savile's activities, no?

Sorry, I meant specifically in relation to the Jimmy Savile situation. Where the BBC turned a blind eye to a child molester, aided by a culture where girls were thought to be lying or leading men on.

The filmed in advance thing doesn't wash- they pulled Bad Cop part way through, quite rightly so.

It points at a completely Neanderthal culture. Throughout writing, filming, editing no-one can have spoken up or been listened to that this is a massively wrong message to be giving.