To let you know the axe and machete girl WAS defending herself against her now convicted attacker.

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A lot of posters here need to see the conclusion of this story about the clearly terrified child, that so many people were quick to be awful about. You all owe this extremely vulnerable child you participated in the defamation of, a massive fucking apology. I'm genuinely so angry about how so many grown women denigrated a hurt and scared child. Her fear was so evident in her voice and demeanor and so many mothers here were quick to throw her under a bus. Well you've all been proven wrong now, with the man she was trying to defend herself from found guilty of assault.

Honestly, just think about what you people did, defending a man who assaulted a child just because she was of a class you deem beneath you. I hope you're very, very ashamed and take stock before more girls like her suffer worse.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/bulgarian-man-guilty-of-assaulting-12-year-old-girl/a/156878498.html

Do you have any idea why she already had it on her person, since none of the published information suggests she’d met this man before?

Do you have any idea why a grown man was free to sexually harass little girls in the area?

I was replying to the poster who said she would not allow her dc to catch a bus on their own, with or without an axe.

Very much so. And whilst displaying superiority at their higher moral standing and impeccable parenting skills too.

Makes you despair for humanity doesn't it when a vulnerable child is the centre of their judgemental bile.

That doesn’t answer what I asked.

He lived there and was a predator.

Well there you go, she lived there and was a scared little girl.

We’re all entitled to keep our kids safe as we see fit.

My way of doing that involves not letting them catch the bus with a group of girls, one of whom who thinks it acceptable to carry weapons because she’s not been taught otherwise. That presents a risk I’m not comfortable with my children being exposed to.

My way of preventing a teen from getting harassed in a park is to not allow them to hang around in parks to begin with.

She knew, in advance, that there was a potential of that event happening?

We’re clutching now, aren’t we. Crystal balls don’t exist in Scotland either.

Do you imagine that she comes from a background where there was an adult who could protect her?

“my kids are not going to school with children who carry axes” is a position of some privilege. You are fortunate if that’s so, but not virtuous.

Both this girl and her sister come from a very vulnerable background and this thread has a lot of hating on the poor and the underage. Frankly on a parenting forum I am a tad bit shocked by the vitriol against the victim.

Ahh but your crystal balls tells you she knew nothing of this man and had never met him or heard of him or heard stories about him before? Amazing, where did you get it from?

Whut? (Has it become that difficult for people to follow quote and reply functions on MN?)

The lack of information saying otherwise?

Had this been a campaign of ongoing issues, why does literally nothing say that?

What is wrong with you? Why aren't you spending your energy over criticising and analysing the male sexual predator and his violent relative who initiated this incidence?

Why do you hold a 12 year old child as more deserving of scrutiny and derision?

It also doesn't say she regularly carried weapons, does it?

Why did the police originally claim she was a liar?

I am stumped as to how your reply has anything to do with my post. But reported personal attacks irregardless.

It’s not privilege.

As I have mentioned in PPs - I grew up in the NE, on a deprived council estate, with children and families who had not a single pot to piss in.

My father is a violent alcoholic. We were referred to social services by the time I was 8.

Many of those I went to school with who did carry weapons are now either dead or in prison.

You can be from a challenging background and not resort to that, and suggesting otherwise places absolutely no confidence in people from those backgrounds to be able to be anything else.

This expectation that being poor means you have to carry an axe to protect yourself, or go into Southampton to throw bins around, has to stop. Poverty does not have to mean violent, and using it as a reason to excuse it does absolutely nobody any favours.

I’m saying that as someone who has actually lived it.

The violent one was the adult man who pushed her. Did you miss that for some reason?

Predominantly because I’m responding to the OP, which was about apologising to the young girl for previously saying that she shouldn’t have been wielding an axe?

Which I still believe she shouldn’t have been.

I guess I, along with others, are pretty incredulous at anyone chuckling about this incident.

Report away.

I haven’t chuckled about the incident.

Quote and Reply Function.

Point to where OP wrote "apologise to the young girl for previously saying that she shouldn’t have been wielding an axe?"

Yeah I think there’s a weird belief we’re all sitting in our Belgravia mansion quaffing some champers as we’re typing.

You clearly have no idea how much worse it is in Scotland than England.
We have police giving school girls rape alarms for when the men harassing them at school attack them (article linked up thread).
We have men in women's prisons
Our own government calling anyone who questions either of these things racist bigots and the police still recording NCHI against all advice oh yeh and standalone perception based hate crime laws that dont protect women

Here you go.

I personally don't find anything remotely amusing about the whole incident. Reading the focus of blame displayed here towards the girl - the victim of a sexual predator - is sick.

So you chuckling about others trying to draw your attention to the trigger rather than derail from that and only fixate on the actions of the girls response is really fucking shitty when you look at the whole picture.