Maxine Carr ... how would you feel if she moved close to you?

[littlemissbossy]

I don't know whether anyone has read the Mail on Sunday today, but in her first interview since her release, Maxine Carr is quoted as being "grateful" that many people who recognise her are polite and has said that an elderly couple she'd met told her she'd been poorly treated.

If you recognised her in the street, how would you feel? particularly if you found out she was living close to you?
Opinions please mumsnetters.

[Tinker]

"Oh, if she moved next door to me I?d be petrified for my children?s safety"

Why?

"It clearly didn?t bother her that he?d been involved in a sexual assault/rape prior to their relationship"

How do you know she knew/it didn't bother her?

"That?s when your kids are at risk from a woman of such a low moral standing"

Confused????????

"The thing that really bothers me is that she doesn?t seem to give a damn about the families of Holly and Jessica"

How do you know?

[Blu]

But she thought he was an innocent victim of a false accusation, didn't she?

Whatever we all think, the fact is now that she has been tried in court, convicted for giving the false alibi, served time and been released. Because the press feel the need to get as much coverage as possible and sell papers, and because people feel the need to take the law into their own hands, or express their distress at what Ian Huntley did by targetting someone who stuck up for him BEFORE SHE REALISED HE WAS GUILTY we taxpayers are having to foot the bill for her protection.

[Fio2]

Exactly Tinker

[Shiraz]

OKAY so i am pretty new to this site and do not want to get anyones backs up (ie after having many bitchy answers back on other "mummy sites"

However i do not think she knew he had killed those girls..she was totally in LOVE with that peice of s**t! NAIVE, she was , maybe..to think that she needed to cover up for him as he had been "accused" of such things in the past, she genuinely was trying to protect her partner who she thought was innnocent! Did you see the look and shock in her face when they told her int he police interview..she isn't clever enough to be able to do that..surely?!

What i cannot understand is that he had all these other accusations in the past (in several different towns)..i used to live near them and drank in the same pub as them (in Scunthorpe)...and he was accused of something or other then..she chose to stick with him and (unfortuantley ) believe him and therefore give a flase alibi..that is ALL she is guitly of (apart from what she has served her time for)!

People want to blame Maxine as it makes them feel better, i personally do not think i would be frightened or feel unsafe if she moved within the vicinity of my family! There are plenty of more dangerous people walking freely on the streets as it is, whom you would not recognise as you don't know them and they equally can't be named but have done much, much worse!

Right i'm offski now, before anybody starts throwing things at me..

[Bugzi]

I give up!

I've explained my feelings about this woman and what bothers me about her. If you don't understand that then I can't help you. Re-read my post slowly and you'll find the answers. I am allowed to have my own opinion - which won't change. Anyone involved in such crimes will never lose the stigma. Yes, I agree, leave her alone. Maybe even forget she was involved, just like the Chapman's and Wells families can forget their daughters were murdered and bodies burnt, dumped and decayed. Imagine not being able to kiss your precious child goodbye because there was basically nothing left of them. Imagine.............

[Fio2]

Bugzi you are entitled to your own opinion, we are all different. i am sure you are right, if it were our child then we would hate her - I can totally understand where you are coming from. I just feel differently, we all do in many respects of everything, dont take it personally

[Bugzi]

Thanks Fio2, you basically just said what I've been trying to say all along, in 2 sentences.

[aloha]

I personally think it is extremely presumptious to assume you know how the families of the children feel, and to assume how any of us would feel if something terrible happened to our children. I also find it distasteful to imply that if you don't hate Maxine Carr and actively want to hurt her then you are cannot be horrified by what Ian Huntley (not Maxine Carr, who was hundreds of miles away at the time) did to the two girls. I also find it offensive to state that any woman who has the misfortune to become involved with a criminal man has 'low morals'. Murder is not a sexually transmitted disease.

[hercules]

Poor, poor woman. There are so many people who have actually committed dreadful acts against children and yet have recieved far less punishment in terms of people hating them and publicity.
She has and will continue to be punished above and beyond what she deserves by the public and media.
It seems she is a scapegoat for peoples hatred and fears of people who actually hurt children.
Ian Huntley was the person who killed those children not her. Yes, she was naive but she wont be the first to believe a liar and she wont be the last.
Peoples time and energy should be put to better use not hating her but dealing appropriately with people who do actually hurt children and by appropriately I dont mean a witch hunt.

I'm sure I would differently if it was my children but that it is why we have judges etc to decide guilt and suitable punishments rather than those who may not be able to make rational judgements.

[glitterfairy]

Bugzi you obviously have very strong feelings on this, which as you say are your own, thank goodness. Aloha has said everything that I would have liked to say as I read your posts.

[Moomin]

If we hated and tried to punish every single woman who was naive; who was of below-average intelligence; who was lied to, deceived and manipulated by her partner but she stood by him; whose partner had a history of violence and even sexual violence, then I expect we'd hate a vast number of women who stand behind us in the supermarket, or in front of us in the precinct or those we stand with at the school gates, or even some of our freinds or members of our family.

[MeanBean]

I think that's why we only choose a selected few, Moomin. It's easier that way. There's just not enough hate to go round!

[Paula71]

This poor woman knows exactly how people feel about Carr. She was on the news tonight in Scotland and she looks absolutely nothing like Carr (different hair colour, facial features, build, the fact she is Scottish, everything!) The reporter then went to the housing estate where one lovely neighbour said basically if they thought she was Carr she wouldn't be safe.

(I'm thinking more on the lines that it is just evil neighbours against this woman rather than them thinking she was Carr but all the same. Things like this make me ashamed to be Scottish.)