Can't believe what Sky News reporter just said re child sex abuse victim of Adam Johnson

[ofuckit]

Did anybody else see this? I'm horrified and a bit disturbed tbh.

The reporter was talking to an ex footballer about the case and said 'Do you think it's hard for people to understand how hard it is to deal with the temptations put in the way of footballers'.... 😟
The ex footballer responded in agreement with the reporter, saying how oh yes it's very hard for them, etc....

So we can assume from this that these men see children as 'temptations put in their way'?

i feel sick 😞

I honestly don't see what is going to be achieved by putting him in prison for 10 years?

A HUGE deterrent to other people to ensure that they abide by the law and can't buy their way out of it

As for Sky "News". It's the TV equivalent of the Daily Mail isn't it ?

It is the journalist's job to ask the tricky questions, it doesn't mean they agree with them. He probably asked the question precisely in order to get the response that he did. The person being interviewed could have answered in a different way.

(Ex journalist).

It is the journalist's job to ask the tricky questions, it doesn't mean they agree with them.

This wasn't a 'tricky' question though. It was a question based on the premise that the girls was a 'temptation that had been put in the way' of the sex offender.

What she actually was, was a child fan.

I saw this last night too.
Revolting.
I have complained to Ofcom.

To punish a very wealthy person financially for a sex crime prostitutes the Victim.

To incarcerate that person for a good length of time sends out a deterrent.

I think it's insulting to the majority of footballers who seem to manage to resist just fine. Many of them are family men and will be as disgusted by what he did as any member of the general public.

Girls that age do not have the maturity on the whole to handle that situation. That is why they are still a child under the law.

He said he did it out of boredom which is truly disgusting FFS find something to do, play a video game, golf anything!

I have started a thread about this on the news topic, but just to let you all know James O'Brian is having a phone in about the fucking awful treatment of AJs victim right now on LBC.

I wonder if anyone will call in to blame the poor girl.

Twin You're missing the point that although lots of 15 year old girls think they know what they're doing, with their 'raging hormones' etc, they actually don't know what they're doing and don't have the emotional maturity to be able to cope with what they could end up doing. That is why the law is there to protect these CHILDREN from older predatory men.

And yes legally a 15 year old is a child. Do you suggest we start re-defining what age a girl is an adult based on when she hits puberty and the hormones start raging? Can't you see that your point of view starts to lead down an extremely dodgy road?

And personally I have always considered Bill Wyman to be a dirty old perv, and if you looked into it you would find his now ex-wife doesn't think much of him either...

And PS MNHQ please feel free to delete the last paragraph of my previous post if it goes against the rules

TwinMummy

You are very ill informed.

She was NOT just shy of the legal age. One of the texts shows he asked her her age and she replied I've just turned 15. She was not "just shy" of legal age, she was actually "just shy" of 14.

Not that any of that matters. The law states she is a child until she was 16. He knew he was grooming and perusing a child in the eyes of the laws, as he googled "legal age of consent" after the first meeting with the girl.

Please get your facts straight and it may stop you spouting such victim blaming tripe.

She wasn't 'just shy' of the legal age of consent, she'd just had her 15th birthday - and he knew that. She told him that she wasn't old enough to go out, so it's not like she tried to sneak into nightclubs underage (not that that would be an excuse either).

She was a naive young fan that was flattered by the attention of one of her favourite footballers, and he is a manipulative sex offender who knowingly groomed a child - not just 'as slaggy man with no morals'. A 'slaggy man with no morals' is someone who cheats on or misleads consenting adult women.

Adam Johnson, like other adults who groom and manipulate underage children for sex, is a criminal. Hence the court case and impending jail sentence.

I'm 50 and I remember being 15 too. I remember being a starstruck girl who was out of my depth with people who were at least 10 years older even if they weren't my fantasy boyfriend.

If I'd have met someone I adored who'd groomed me in the way that Johnson admitted from the outset of the trial, I'd have let him touch me up and given him a blow job. I wouldn't have wanted to, I just wouldn't have known how to refuse.

He was lucky to be acquitted of the blow job charge. I completely believed that one and if more people on that jury had agreed, he'd have been staring at even more jail time.

Twin You're missing the point that although lots of 15 year old girls think they know what they're doing, with their 'raging hormones' etc, they actually don't know what they're doing and don't have the emotional maturity to be able to cope with what they could end up doing. That is why the law is there to protect these CHILDREN from older predatory men.

And yes legally a 15 year old is a child. Do you suggest we start re-defining what age a girl is an adult based on when she hits puberty and the hormones start raging? Can't you see that your point of view starts to lead down an extremely dodgy road?

Hear hear (that deserves saving in case of post deletion )

I only had the vaguest idea of the reality of sex when i was 15 but i would have been beside myself if Brett Anderson had spoken to me.

The huge power/knowledge/status/maturity/everything imbalance between a wealthy adult and a naive child is completely overlooked in the "she knew what she was doing and anyway I knew some sexually advanced teens when I was a teen" arguments.

I wouldn't have wanted to, I just wouldn't have known how to refuse.

Yes, THIS^

Thank you Gooseberry

If your 15 yo DD came home one day and said to you "mum, I'm in love with a 28 year old man and we've been dating, I'm probably going to have sex with him soon...." you'd tell her in no uncertain terms that she is fifteen and no fucking way is she dating a 28 year old. You'd tell her she's too young to know her own mind, too young to know what love is, too young to have sex, too young to decide for herself and too young to be with such an older man. Then you'd probably tell him in no uncertain terms to stay the fuck away from her, that he's the adult and he should go find someone his own age, and that he's a pervert to be hanging around young girls.

So why, in this case, do people trot out the line that "she must have known what she was doing"? I highly doubt that any of them would say such a thing to their own DD if it happened to them.

Dawn how horrible. I think a lot of us (me included) have found ourselves out of our depths around that age - but thankfully (for me anyway) the man was decent and normal and was therefore quite horrified and stopped before it went any further.

But I was wondering what 'having a show' might mean....

the Child Abuser Adam Johnson will leave jail a millionaire and will probably get another footballing job abroad

I don't think he will.

The Rapist Ched Evans isn't exactly coining it in these days, is he?

And of course, the big difference with this case is that Adam Johnson clearly knew the girl's age. But because he's a nonce he didn't mind.