Page 3 | To think this social worker should have been struck off?

SilencednotSilent · 2021-04-03T20:28:23+00:00

[[https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/child-social-worker-banned-year-20302285.amp?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar&__twitter_impression=true]] He was given a one year suspension, instead of being removed from the register, for engaging in sexual activity with a schoolgirl he let drink vodka. He had been watching pornography and masturbating in a communal area before the act. Their logic? “The panel is satisfied that a well-informed and reasonable member of the public...would not require an otherwise capable, committed and experienced social worker to be removed from the register in these circumstances." The decision by Social Work England: [[https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/media/3704/decision-kershaw-s.pdf]] AIBU?

Nith · 04/04/2021 00:06

I can't believe a jury bought the whole "she forced me" bullshit as well

We don't know what she said in evidence at the trial. They would have had to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt in order to convict him.

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:07

Read the report? It's linked in OP's first post.

This is a discussion forum, not a tribunal. I don't want to trawl through lengthty reports for goodness sake.

Nith · 04/04/2021 00:08

It isn't lengthy, @ismiseeire

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:09

Married couples, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, manage to go through life without being caught 'at it' by children. What a cunt.

mooonstone · 04/04/2021 00:09

I’m guessing she was his partner’s daughter or a teen family member’s friend. Very creepy regardless

Sorry but good men don’t place themselves in this situation to begin with. If it was a teen boy and an adult woman, everyone would wonder why the f she was masturbating instead of looking after the teens/being a housewife. And no one would have blamed the teen boy for being curious as “boys will be boys”

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 04/04/2021 00:09

@ismiseeire

Read the report? It's linked in OP's first post.

This is a discussion forum, not a tribunal. I don't want to trawl through lengthty reports for goodness sake.

Then why so many questions? Relying on others to read it for you? As it's the only way to have any extra detail aside from the news article.

Original poster

SilencednotSilent · 04/04/2021 00:11

**He was in his own home and wasn't working.

He was not in his home. He was in the communal area of a home the child also lived in.

The child did report him to police a year later, and he was charged with rape. The CPS is known to only bring the strongest cases to Court so the fact that they felt they had enough evidence to prosecute him, only for the jury to find him not guilty (which isn’t uncommon), makes the panel’s decision alarming.

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AIMD · 04/04/2021 00:13

Yes I think he should be struck off.

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:15

Then why so many questions? Relying on others to read it for you? As it's the only way to have any extra detail aside from the news article. It's a discussion forum. I'm not going to trawl through lengthy documents when someone who has already read it can answer.

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 04/04/2021 00:18

@SilencednotSilent

**He was in his own home and wasn't working.

He was not in his home. He was in the communal area of a home the child also lived in.

The child did report him to police a year later, and he was charged with rape. The CPS is known to only bring the strongest cases to Court so the fact that they felt they had enough evidence to prosecute him, only for the jury to find him not guilty (which isn’t uncommon), makes the panel’s decision alarming.

The thing is the panel know and admit (and so did he) that he engaged in sexual activity with a minor. They acknowledge it's gross misconduct. They admit he's guilty of giving her alcohol and the sexual act.

Then they turn around and it's all special circumstances and unintentional, and yeah it was sexual but he's not attracted to children or a danger.
They also admit they have not asked the child for any evidence or used anything she said in the trial. This is all based on his own words.
What. The. Fuck.?!?

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:18

Mr Kershaw voluntarily attended Middlesbrough police office on the same day and was interviewed under caution. During the interview he admitted that in or around October 2015 he had given some alcohol to Child 1, specifically he allowed her to taste some Jägermeister and Vodka and Red Bull. After she had gone to bed he had watched some pornography on his own in the living room, undressed and begun masturbating. Child 1 and another child were upstairs (PRIVATE) at the time. Child 1 returned to the room without warning. He stated that Child 1 had attempted to engage him in sexual activity and put his penis in her mouth. He stated: “A couple of seconds had gone by and like I said then that’s when the reality of everything just kicked in for me and I started not feeling very well... [She] had pushed me pushed back here, pushed in to the bottom of the sofa and [she] just obviously initiated oral sex and then for that split couple of seconds I was obviously still what’s going on and then the reality, like I’ve said the reality and I was pulling myself in like that and then tried to get off”

I'm reading this shit, and I still have no idea how that girl ended up there being plied with alcohol?

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:21

How in Christ's name is it ok for a man to strip naked in the dining room to wank to porn while there are children/teens upstairs? Good God almighty.

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:22

Oh and I love the

[She] had pushed me pushed back here, pushed in to the bottom of the sofa and [she] just obviously initiated oral sex and then for that split couple of seconds I was obviously still what’s going on and then the reality, like I’ve said the reality and I was pulling myself in like that and then tried to get off”

And that happened. Yeah.

After he had given her jagermeister and vodka and red bull.

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:24

This is actually unbelievable. Not that I don't believe the teen. I do - 100%. I don't believe that cunt and I don't belive that he got off and I don't believe that he still has a job as social worker. Fucking unbelievable!

Original poster

SilencednotSilent · 04/04/2021 00:25

**”The thing is the panel know and admit (and so did he) that he engaged in sexual activity with a minor. They acknowledge it's gross misconduct. They admit he's guilty of giving her alcohol and the sexual act.

Then they turn around and it's all special circumstances and unintentional, and yeah it was sexual but he's not attracted to children or a danger.
They also admit they have not asked the child for any evidence or used anything she said in the trial. This is all based on his own words.
What. The. Fuck.?!?”**

Agreed. The CPS wouldn’t have sought to prosecute him for rape if her account didn’t differ from his.

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ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:27

Who doesn't hear someone on the stairs?
Who strips naked to wank downstairs when there are other people in the house?
Who gives a teen alcohol?

Who the fuck has jagermeisters and vodka and red bull in the house?
Who doesn't hear her coming in until 'she' has your arms pinned back and is sucking on your cock?

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:30

It's standard procedure for her refusing to go to trial. I was sexually assaulted and wanted to go ahead with it until I was so traumatised that the thoughts of going to court fucking petrified me. My case was reported as having been dropped due to insufficient evidence.
When they don't have the witness willing to go to court, they have no evidence.
What an utter bastard.

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 04/04/2021 00:32

@ismiseeire

It's standard procedure for her refusing to go to trial. I was sexually assaulted and wanted to go ahead with it until I was so traumatised that the thoughts of going to court fucking petrified me. My case was reported as having been dropped due to insufficient evidence. When they don't have the witness willing to go to court, they have no evidence. What an utter bastard.

It went to trial, he was found not guilty.

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:33

He has fucking admitted it - how could he have been found not guilty?
Oh, because the girl wanted it I suppose? Initiated it?

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 00:34

Oh dear, this is just annoying me now.

Clymene · 04/04/2021 00:47

I guess they believed he was innocently wanking on he sofa to porn with the door ajar while there there two sleeping teenagers upstairs (who he'd been drinking with earlier) when the predatory teenager crept downstairs and was so taken by the sight of a middle aged man's cock, she couldn't help herself and had to take it in her mouth. After a brief moment, he realised this was Wrong so told her to get off him.

The following day, he reported the incident to his superiors/the police because the behaviour was so disturbing for a child.

Oh no, wait he didn't do that. She reported him a year later

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 03:20

It went to trial, he was found not guilty.

Let me guess. She failed to testify?

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 03:26

@Clymene

I guess they believed he was innocently wanking on he sofa to porn with the door ajar while there there two sleeping teenagers upstairs (who he'd been drinking with earlier) when the predatory teenager crept downstairs and was so taken by the sight of a middle aged man's cock, she couldn't help herself and had to take it in her mouth. After a brief moment, he realised this was Wrong so told her to get off him.

The following day, he reported the incident to his superiors/the police because the behaviour was so disturbing for a child.

Oh no, wait he didn't do that. She reported him a year later

I know! Those predatory 15 year olds. Always preying on old men with their dicks out.

This is fucking unbelievable in terms of injustice. The 15 year old's life is totally fucked up now. She has been told that it didn't happen, she is imagining thing or making shit up. She has learned that there is no justice and that men can and will do whatever they like. What fucking arseholes we have in charge. That girl should be offered the opportunity to pursue a civil case against him for damages. He should be fired immediately and never allowed to work with children or vulnerable people again. I know that his dick only slipped into her mouth for a few seconds and then it slipped out again. Who the hell were the jury?

hatgirl · 04/04/2021 06:54

Whilst I completely agree with the concern being shown an awful lot if posters clearly haven't read the actual facts around the case and are making a number if inaccurate leaps.

So for those concerned...

He isn't working as a social worker and hasn't been since 2016.

He did lose his job as a social worker in 2016 when this happened.

There have been HUGE delays at the social work regulatory body in having final hearings. This happened quite a few years ago. He hasn't been working as a social worker during this time.

He was in his own home. Presumably with two children/teenagers known to him personally upstairs. He wasn't in a residential setting and the children involved were not service users.

Not all social workers work with children as part of their job.

Not all registered social workers actually work as social workers, lots of people hold and maintain their registration but don't use it.

The child did make a complaint to the police a year after the incident. It went all the way to court despite the time elapsed. It was taken seriously.

When the child made the complaint to the police and he was charged he lost his job.

I don't know why SWE have decided to make it only a years suspension on his registration, I assume they believe the risk to be minimal because he isn't working as a social worker currently. they are a new regulatory body and the previous one was heavily criticised for being too punitive.

ismiseeire · 04/04/2021 07:11

hatgirl

Few more facts

Social worker
Old man gets teens drunk at his house
Gets naked downstairs
15 year olds mouth slips onto his cock