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To think this is so misogynistic?

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Feefooo · 13/05/2023 15:36

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12077989/British-father-confronted-16-year-old-sons-alleged-killer-speaks-agony-brutal-death.html

Sorry for the fail link , AIBU to think this headline is disgusting? The girl was 15 and murdered as well by a 44 year old man. It was not a honey trap and her boyfriend was not a 44 year old man she was being groomed and sexually abused. I really want to complain absolutely vile to blame a 15 year old murdered abused girl fot the boys death. The only fault it is the 44 year old murderer!!!

British father who confronted son's alleged killer speaks of agony

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Graham, 60, angrily confronted the killer of his son Woramet Ben Taota this week following his murder in the jungle outside Lampang, Thailand.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12077989/British-father-confronted-16-year-old-sons-alleged-killer-speaks-agony-brutal-death.html

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Azealeasinbloom · 13/05/2023 15:44

It’s a sad story. It’s not clear to me whether Ben, the victim, was himself already involved in taking drugs, but I think his father may be in denial / overcome with grief/ looking for some one to blame.
Or it may be a spin that the journalists have put on the story.
Drugs are an evil scourge.

itsrainin · 13/05/2023 15:47

The whole article is poorly written

Sapphire387 · 13/05/2023 15:51

It doesn't really read like that to me, it feels like they are saying she was also a victim.

DoggerelBank · 13/05/2023 16:00

What an awful story. Quite incoherently written, but it's the usual emphasis on British victims getting more attention than victims of other nationalities, I think, more than sexism. And she is treated as a victim too. There does seem to be a bit of a sense of the dad lashing out at the girl, though - just looking for someone, anyone to blame, as he's hurting. I presume if this was a UK crime, it wouldn't be reported like this in case it affected the trial? Poor kids. Poor parents. Just dreadful.

Assignedtoworryyourmother · 13/05/2023 16:03

The headline does not even reference the girl, unless by 'headline' you mean 'rest of article'.

Feefooo · 13/05/2023 16:05

Assignedtoworryyourmother · 13/05/2023 16:03

The headline does not even reference the girl, unless by 'headline' you mean 'rest of article'.

It says honey trap murder in the headline on the article.

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Assignedtoworryyourmother · 13/05/2023 16:10

Ah apologies - without clicking the link it does not.

BensonStabler · 13/05/2023 16:13

Yes it’s utterly abhorrent. Clickbait inflammatory headlines that are implying the blame lies with that poor girl.

I read a similar headline on a different paper that said the 15 year old girl LURED the 16 year old boy to his death in the woods.

Then it is revealed in the article that one of the boy’s family members thought that this may be the case, but not even in that same honey trap sense that the journalist’s trying to make it out to be, I think a grandmother said that she just thinks the boy only went there because he was with the girl going to meet a man - it was implied that the girl was the one meeting the man, yet it turns out the 16 year old boy was also involved in the 44 year old convicted sex offender’s drug dealing as well. So likely they both were planning to meet up with the man.

It’s clear he murdered them both but is only admitting killing the boy.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 13/05/2023 16:17

It’s almost impossible to understand the article but yes I think you’re right

LakeTiticaca · 13/05/2023 16:25

I should think the media are reporting what the Thai police have said.
Only those there know what really happened.

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