Daily Mail's Anne Atkins - porridge on the menu?

[fourwalls]

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2220693/I-havent-handed-paedophile-police--hes-friend-family-A-leading-agony-aunt-makes-explosive-confession.html

Wonder if she's done this story because she's already had the knock on the door?

[BoneyBackJefferson]

I wonder how 'chris' feels now that his story is out in the world.

[Catkinsthecatinthehat]

This is a woman who has earned her media profile by constantly attacking gays, particularly Christian gays, and was rebuked by the PCC for wrongly claiming that homosexuals were likely kiddie fiddlers, yet now says she ignored child abuse as it was by a friend of the family?

I know it's cruel, but I did laugh years ago when she was promoting herself a perfect god-fearing nuclear family agony aunt, and her daughter ran away from home (later to be found safe) because life with her was so sodding miserable and oppressive.

[Darkesteyes]

I reckon if i was to go for a coffee with Annes daughter we would find that we have a lot in common.

[Anna1976]

the daughter in question had severe childhood-onset depression, probably not helped by stupid vacuous Mummy dearest self-aggrandizing in the press about her own insightful wondrous parenting skills, while f*ing up all the kids by constantly writing about their problems for the world to see. Egotistical blinkered old hag. I think she makes my blood boil because I do have quite a lot in common with her daughters. Darkest, how about we all go for coffee together

[Darkesteyes]

I like that idea Anna x I get the feeling that Atkins is a bit of a narcissist as well.

[stillsmarting]

She should have encouraged her friend to go to the Police, but if she reported it herself as a third party the Police probably wouldn't take much notice.
We have been through a situation ourselves where we were able to persuade DS to go to the Police in order to try to prevent the person doing the same to someone else. It was not a pleasant experience. Those who should have protected DS did not and without wanting to go into details I can say it was a truly horrible experience for our family. It required an amazing stregth of character, from DS and our family as a whole.
As for doing it for money, what good is money? It does not blot out what has happened, or make it easier to forgive those who failed our son, and then blamed us for making waves by reporting it.

[Greythorne]

Thought for the Day is generally boring. But Anne Atkins' Thoughts for the Day are appalling. Banal, smug, superficial, middle England claptrap.