Can anyone help me please, I want to make a (probably completely pointless) complaint to a newspaper *[Content warning: concerns child sex abuse]

[UnderHisAye]

My local newspaper is reporting that this person has been convicted of downloading a video of a two year old being raped. This person also had searched online for information on raping and killing toddlers.

According to the sheriff's comments, this would usually mean a custodial sentence but ".I have to look at whether other options are available and in this case there are. “I will impose a Community Payback Order because of the exceptional circumstances involving mental health and various other reasons."

At a guess these mental health/exceptional circumstances are related to this person changing pronouns. They have also been subjected to the terrible fate of only being allowed ONE phone and laptop.

I want to complain to the news organisation about how they refer to this person who is legally male and, as far as I can tell, has no GRC. I'm not sure exactly how to come at it, although I feel they're complicit in gaslighting on an epic scale.

Does anyone have any text they've previously used which they could share with me?

I think you should post this separately op, it's good to see you have made a difference through positive action.

It is, isn't it? It feels like a tiny ray of something. Surely not hope?

Yes, I am feeling particularly angry about it all today because of the bullishness of certain visitors.
Sunlight through the clouds and all that.

You've gotta take it where you can get it right? It's slim pickings on the good news front, mostly.

Note this isn't paywalled either. I'd take this as a win OP. The MurrayBlackburnMacKenzie team are total sheroes.

Sorry op, I just reposted the link. This thread disappeared for me and I thought it had been hijacked and subsequently zapped.
Didn't mean to steal your thunder!

Oh is that right about the paywall? I subscribe (work purposes) so didn't know if it was or wasn't.

Don't be daft @BuffyTheSlavishIdeologySlayer just glad there's a wee bit of positivity to share

@UnderHisAye

Oh is that right about the paywall? I subscribe (work purposes) so didn't know if it was or wasn't.

I couldn't get into the first article but the second linked straight through, so I think so.

Paywall is selective I think. Some things are open and others are premium content for subscribers.

“igivein

Might also be worth noting that the report says the downloaded video showed a toddler being raped by a woman.
You have to have a penis to rape someone.”

I too wondered if that rapist in the video was a trans woman.

But I read somewhere little boys can be raped by women using them and I so thought it might be that.

Poor, poor little boy.

Referring back to the OP, it is just beyond belief that the offence being reported was actually committed by a man.

It makes nonsense of the idea of reporting the truth.

Rowantrees
“Finding the defendant guilty, the judge refused the victim compensation, saying that when asked to refer to the defendant as ‘she’, the victim had done so with ‘bad grace’ or continued to use ‘he’.”

That is one of the worst examples of abuse of a woman by the law I have ever heard.