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

The man has been arrested and charged you’re making things up if you’re suggesting anyone has said that shouldn’t happen.

Yes, if my 12-year-old girl was genuinely at risk of harm by a peadophile, I think it’s acceptable for her to carry a weapon to protect herself in the right circumstances. I’m not going to let a grown man hurt my child physically or emotionally without her feeling like she has any ability to defend herself.

She’s not a hero.

My kids are not going to school with children who carry axes, or have parents who would encourage that.

They’re not hanging around the streets with girls with knives, or boys with knives.

That is a hard line that most reasonable parents would have. My kids lives are a weapon free zone, and they’re not sitting outside shops with kids who carry them.

If they need protection, come home or find an adult.

It is our job, not theirs, to protect them. If you’re the kind of parent who would prefer an axe wielding 12 year old over doing your job as their parent - I have some serious questions about your capabilities.

Well the police were pretty keen at the start of all this, werent they, painting him as the victim? As were all the horrific women here, so keen to condemn her without even hearing her side and casting the man as the victim, or are we pretending that didn't happen now?

You realise not every child has parents who will protect them, dont you?

Well that’s where we differ.

I wouldn’t have mine sat on a street corner regardless, with or without an axe.

It’s a different world to the one we grew up in, and for the record I grew up on a council estate so that’s not coming from a place of privilege.

If was inclined to let them walk the streets, they wouldn’t be taken a knife with them. Fights happen, arguments about boyfriends, whatever, before you know it, you have a dead child on your hands because yours was carrying a knife and lost their shit.

Far, far too big a risk IMO. Wouldn’t happen.

I hadnt heard orcread about this case before and am wondering whether OP is confusing it with the other axe attacker that HAS been discussed on here - 19-year-old Neo Nazi Alina Burns who was jailed for 19.5 years in May for attempted murder after a terror-motivated attack against an Iranian Kurd in a Kebab shop in Bristol?

She may well be vulnerable and may well have been let down, but even vulnerable children know that you don’t arm yourself with lethal weapons and take matters into your own hands like that. Not least because she is further endangering herself if someone else gets hold of those weapons and uses them against her.

Going to the police about the harassment would be the fully understood response to anyone, vulnerable or not.

I sympathise with the girl but can in no way condone her actions.

I do, yeah. My dad is abusive, and I worked in schools for children with various vulnerabilities.

Those parents shouldn’t have their children. Schools need to do better, services need to do better.

I don’t think it’s reasonable for vulnerable kids to resort to violence, they have to be taught better, by somebody.

How can you “do your job as a parent” when you’re at home and your child is out on the street? You can’t protect a child that age 24/7. You need to teach them to protect themselves. An axe and a knife might be extreme, but I’m teaching my kids that they never have to put up with anyone attacking them physically or emotionally. They stand up for themselves and they don’t put up with it. In this child’s world and the area they live in, it sounds as though waving a knife around (I agree the axe was a bit OTT) might have been the only way to get the message across to not fuck with her. She IS a hero, she’s shown that not all 12-year-old girls are easy prey for grown male peadophiles, and if it makes other men think twice the next time they want to yell something disgusting to a child then that can only be a good thing IMO

Even more reason for not carrying lethal weapons

This is insane, and the reason that knife crime and deaths is so endemic these days. I can’t believe an adult would encourage their child to ‘tool up’ like this! 🤷‍♀️😳

I find it incredibly concerning that children of the age of 12 are feeling that they have to take weapons to the park to protect themselves. Obviously no one should be carrying an offensive weapon but why aren’t we protecting children from pervy predators? I assume the girls fall in that white, poor, “problematic” demographic where any abuse suffered gets chalked up to “choices”.

So what weapons are your kids carrying?!

We’re talking about a 12 year old. Not a kid in their late teens, a 12 year old.

You start by not having your kid walking the streets. You continue by not encouraging or allowing them to have access to weapons.

I grew up in one of those areas, and I don’t believe it’s acceptable to wave a knife around.

You can be “rough” and know better - we have to stop infantilising the working class, like they can’t know better than taking an axe to the shop.

So you’d rather your child got sexually assaulted by a grown man than carried a weapon to scare him off and therefore avoided getting sexually assaulted. You’d rather your kid had to live with the anger, fear and shame that sexual assault would bring for the rest of her life? Ok. That is not protecting your child imo

I’ve tucked a machete in my daughter’s trousers this morning, you don’t know who’s armed these days.

Of course its not reasonable, they should never be put in that situation in the first place, but its completely understandable.

You do realise the majority of adults could easily disarm her and smack her over the head with that axe? Sorry, hatchet.
Absolute weirdos defending a child carrying weapons.

OMG. I pray you aren’t for real.

There was noone else to protect those kids.

That's the point.

My 9 year old has skipped into school happily.

Polo tshirt, backpack, knuckle dusters, flame thrower.

Well, mum went to court to say she didn’t like watching the video of the attack, so she definitely exists.

Call me old fashioned, but mums parent, and that involves knowing where your kids are and whether they’re armed.

This would be funny if there weren’t so many weird responses on here making me doubt your humour.

Why is the sexual abuse of children 'so endemic'? Is it because so many adults turn a blind eye to it and blame traumatised, scared kids for not being perfect instead?