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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

New today - sexual exploitation on social apps

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NothingOnTellyAgain · 01/03/2019 10:16

Read this in the news today and need a rant.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47410520

Have already ranted to DH but didn't feel like enough.

The story about Emily is appalling. Can you see what's obviously missing as immediately as me?

Not a pop quiz but interested.

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Horsewithnom · 01/03/2019 10:23

Police in England and Wales recorded 1,944 incidents of sexual communication with children in the six months to September 2018

Convictions?

None?

BelladonnaSolanum · 01/03/2019 10:32

Where the police logged age and gender, seven out of 10 victims were girls

And the perpertrators were....?

NothingOnTellyAgain · 01/03/2019 10:36

In Emily's story I would have hoped that it would have ended with

The man has been arrested and charged
Or the man has been arrested
Or the police are searching for the men

Or SOMETHING to indicate that there were CONSEQUENCES for a man who groomed and raped a 13yo girl.

Nothing.

Does that mean there was no interest in finding and arresting him for this CRIME?
Or does it mean the paper don't think it's of interest - if not why not?

Where's the DETERRENT here?

It made me so angry.

Ended with the parents saying they tried and failed to protect her.

Men who commit crimes like this need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law EVERY TIME.

Sorry I'm just so livid.

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NothingOnTellyAgain · 01/03/2019 10:38

Belladonna the stat when I first read it >

"Where the police logged age and gender, seven out of 10 victims were girls aged 12 to 15"

I assumed the others were boys. But now I realised that the 3 out of 10 could be girls of different ages.

It should be made clearer who is most at risk here.

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NothingOnTellyAgain · 01/03/2019 10:42

Horse

I remember that story where a girl was groomed by a man on one of these apps and he got her to send a photo with her top off. I think she was about 14.

She went and told her mum who took her to the police. So far so good.

The police said that they might need to press charges against the girl for making child porn.

In the articles about it there was NO mention that the man was being sought. He was hardly mentioned.

There was a thread on here and lots if MNers thought the police action was good to teach her a lesson.

Society > and that include men women police etc > hate women esp teenage girls quite frankly. And are super keen to turn a blind eye esp when it's about men abusing them.

This is why rotherham etc happened and will happen again.
This is why you have MNers calling for a 12yo child who was the victim of a 26 year old man (however old he was) to be prosecuted for lying about her age and for the man to be set free.

There is no appetite to protect girls over about 11 from sexual abuse, it's all lip service, every time there's an actual case, the excuses for the man come out and the focus is all on the victim. What she did "wrong" etc.

Sick of it and very angry today.

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LangCleg · 01/03/2019 11:06

There is no appetite to protect girls over about 11 from sexual abuse

This.

NothingOnTellyAgain · 01/03/2019 13:17

Good news they just covered this lunchtime news he got 5 years.

They need to 100% put this info in articles about this
As a deterrant
So people see justice is done etc

They still described it oddly

They said
13 year old girl met a man online and she sent him sexual texts
When what they should say is
13yo girl was groomed online by man who persuaded her to send sexual texts

They then described what happened as "having sex" despite her bleeding, crying, and him getting 5 years.
If that's not worth calling rape then what is.

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