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

It is honestly nuts that people think this is what people want.

… Do you think she wouldn’t have gone to prison had she ended up stabbing him, because he was a creep?

Do you also not think had she gone for him with that knife, he could have taken it from her and killed her, because she’s a 12 year old and he’s a grown man?

You can’t really string an argument together can you? It’s almost as if the vast majority of people don’t want “black men in London” carrying knives with the same severity of not wanting children carrying axes and knives.

I mean we’ve already had posters state they would be absolutely fine with their 12 year old carrying an axe so …

I genuinely have no idea! Do you have a link to the full story?

The only reason this even got press was because of the girl. Not because of the man and his sister. Because men like this are everywhere.

No one wants that, stop making shit up.
We want girls to feel safe enough from nonces that they dont feel they have to resort to carrying weapons.
We want police to stop casting all migrants as victims and whilst tarnishing actual victims.
We want GROWN ADULT WOMEN not to dismiss child victims as 'rough' because unsurprisingly their 12 year old mind doesn't have the wisdom to act in the same you you think they should have.

Is that too much to expect do you think?

No one law abiding goes out with an axe and a machete - vulnerable or not. Child or not. 🙄

The vast majority of nonces are in our schools, churches and homes, carrying an axe around doesn’t protect girls from anything.

What a stupid comment, in relation to this situation.

Do you want to answer my actual question?

I think it’s the same if it’s an indigenous pervert tbh. Surely the issue is these children being repeatedly exposed to assault/ sexual predators.

I have 11 yo twins girls and I struggle to imagine how much I, and the system, would need to fail them before one would be so desperate that they’d take a weapon out and about.

I live in SE London near some dodgy areas, and I don't allow either of my DC to walk around with knives and machetes, no matter what others are doing. Because it's illegal. They don't hang out with knife wielders either. That way madness lies.

It is of course right that the man was charged, and his victims should have been listened to much sooner.

No this was a viral video last year that showed her with the knife and hatchet telling the pervert to get off her sister and leave them alone with footage of him and his sister attacking the girls.
You may have missed it because its a Scottish girl but the papers and police were quick to blame her and believe him they didn't even bother to investigate until the public outcry got so loud that they couldn't ignore it anymore. Then surprise surprise she was telling the truth and he and his sister now have criminal records for assaulting young girls and hes got a record for threatening them too.
If you read the articles posted you will get a better understanding of what happened

Of course there is a serious issue with men preying on girls, and women.

But children and adults carrying weapons to " defend themselves " is not the way to tackle the problem. Carrying offensive weapons is an issue in itself.

i cant get on board with this “racism above all else”
mentality. So fucking what if this little girl was racist. The fact that he’s a fucking predator is way more important than that.

Some people have absolutely lost the plot. Honestly.

I must have missed where it said this man had repeatedly followed the girls. The article only mentions one incident and the CCTV footage, so it’s not clear whether this happened more than once.

I also wonder why the girls didn’t tell their parents, at least based on what the article reports.

That said, justice has been served. I completely understand why a child would want to protect themselves, but I strongly disagree with children carrying weapons. Even the girl seemed to know it wasn’t appropriate, given that she tried to get rid of them.

I’m not criticising her actions — it’s awful that schoolchildren feel unsafe enough to think they need to carry anything for protection, especially when adults behave inappropriately toward them.

Hopefully, once he has served his sentence, the appropriate authorities will decide to deport him back to his own country.

Well, I am brown and I agree in this case. The girl should have been believed above all else, regardless of her weapons. And the man investigated.

" Because everywhere in the world they like to hurt little girls". We need to believe women first and sort out other stuff later.

She didn’t stab him, she was a frightened girl showing them in the hope it would scare him off and leave her alone.

In the same way countries use the nuclear button as leverage.

I’m almost bored of saying this on here this week. Two things can be true at once.

The man was absolutely a creep, a predator, and deserved the punishment he’s receiving.

But it’s not “so fucking what if this little girl was a racist.” Racism remains wrong. Not worse than being a predator, but still wrong.

We shouldn’t be raising racists, or encouraging our children to be racist, in much the same way those of us with sons aren’t aiming to raise predators, or endorsing that behaviour.

So no, not “so fucking what.” The only way to get through all of this is to collectively do, and expect better.

That’s not the same thing.

Had he not backed off, one of them would currently be injured or dead, and considering he has a size advantage, that’s not a risk I’d be taking with my daughter.

I again ask you what you think a 12 year old girl being creeped on by a grown man should have done? Let him abuse her? Call the police who may not come in time and are more concerned about allegations of racism anyway.

Its all well and good sitting here judging a little girl for carrying a weapon but would tf do you think she should have done?

First I've heard of this story.

Never heard of any negatives around this before.

I feel it may be naive to say she should have told her parents.

Did he back off due to suddenly realising being a paedo was not a good thing, or something else?

And if she hadn’t had weapons he wouldn’t have backed off at all and she could have been abused or raped.

What would you want your daughter to do? Just be defenceless and get abused?