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What a huge surprise this is.
user75 · 04/05/2022 10:04
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61311046
Abusive men are trying to exploit refugees.
When will the powers that be realise that abusive men will exploit any 'loophole' to reach their victims?
chantico · 04/05/2022 13:32
Well it has been widely predicted (including on MN threads) that the next big scandal will be abuse of refugees. But often poo-poohed as misplaced concern because hosts would be DBS checked.
People urgently needed places to go and to feel safe. Not to go fom frying pan to fire
user75 · 04/05/2022 13:49
On women's hour a today a woman said:
Predators will take any route to access victims
Predators will exploit any identity to access victims
Most predators are men
Men should not be allowed access to vulnerable women
Safeguarding is essential
No shit Sherlock. I mean how fucking stupid do you have to be to see this issue immediately. How stupid do you have to be to see that no men can be given access to women without safe checks?
whereismybike · 06/05/2022 17:50
chantico · 04/05/2022 13:32
Well it has been widely predicted (including on MN threads) that the next big scandal will be abuse of refugees. But often poo-poohed as misplaced concern because hosts would be DBS checked.
People urgently needed places to go and to feel safe. Not to go fom frying pan to fire
Yes, the old 'Don't worry they'll be DBS checked' argument. FFS, all that means is that they have not been caught out before. One of the most abusive, controlling, violent men I've every had the misfortune of knowing would have been able to get a clean DBS check because he managed to manipulate the women he abused in to thinking that they were partly to blame so they never reported his behaviour.
I genuinely can't believe that anyone could possibly NOT have foreseen this as a problem.
TheWeeDonkey · 06/05/2022 18:17
The first time I saw on the news about Ukrainian refugees coming to live in people's houses it was just after a long news article about traffickers taking advantage of some housing associations by housing very vulnerable adults and then forcing them into slavery, sexual abuse and drug trafficking.
I can remember thinking how do they not join up the dots? How many of these people will be abusing these opportunities. Clearly the answer is lots.
PerfectionValley · 06/05/2022 18:43
Well, it's because men wouldn't pretend to be something they're not, would they?
It's completely impossible to imagine a man might go through all the rigamarole of some paperwork, just to be able to abuse vulnerable women.
Who could have predicted that?
user75 · 06/05/2022 22:24
PerfectionValley · 06/05/2022 18:43
Well, it's because men wouldn't pretend to be something they're not, would they?
It's completely impossible to imagine a man might go through all the rigamarole of some paperwork, just to be able to abuse vulnerable women.
Who could have predicted that?
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