Jeremy Forrest verdict - aibu to be confused?

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Yep, I don't think even his own parents could deny he's a massive, hideous scumbag with no impulse control - but how can he have been found guilty of abduction when the girl he had an affair with said it was her idea to go to France and she went willingly?

Can somebody legal shed some light?

5.5 years

and Hall gets 18 months

5 1/2 years!

Oh well it's not as long as I would have hoped but it might make someone else think twice.

I thought he'd get around that. It's better than I feared.

I know my view wont be popular but i think 5 and a half years is excessive and a waste of public money

On the BBC just now, "the school where the love affair started..."
'love affair' FFS, how about child abuse?

It would be a complete waste of public money to keep him in prison for 7 years.

That would be the maximum sentence - he would actually have served less than 3 years due to time spent on remand. I would not have considered that a waste of public money in the slightest.

As it is, he'll serve just over 2 years. Is that a light enough punishment for you?

Sort of agree cantspel. As I said I do have a 15 DD and would be more than crazy if this happened but 15 year old girls can be determined and know what they want and you sometimes cannot help who you fall in love with

I think jail sentences like that send out the strict message that if you do break these laws and you do breach your position of trust that the law will not look kindly on it.

I hope his ex wife and his victim can use these 3 years (lets face it, he won't serve the full 5) to heal and move on.

No but adults can. That's why the responsibilty lies with him, the abuser, not her.

The ban and the message is the most important.

Sadly I have become aware of a teacher who watches porn that is a simulation of spying on young teenage girls showering in a school changing room. There is no legislation against this but he teaches teenage girls and clearly enjoys fantasising about naked school girls in a shower.

What to do? This is not so clear and plenty of people enjoy porn/sexual fantasies that others would recoil from. Yet it is not legal....This teacher has not come to my attention via my work/professional arena. I am not breaching any confidentiality by posting here.

Yes, love affair seems somewhat inappropriate but then it's the BBC, and we know what was going on there so perhaps not surprising in that context.

15 year old girls can be determined and know what they want and you sometimes cannot help who you fall in love with

That's why they need protecting from themselves or rather, predatory older men.

I meant to say 'it is not illegal'

interesting article from the BBC

I hope she isn't allowed any contact with him for her own protection.

Oh agree should have left job and done things more correctly I am not saying that for one minute. I just do not think he is a predatory old man.