To think Labour under Blair were considering reducing the age of consent to 14 about ten years ago.
If he had admitted it 8 or so months ago when he was charged, he would have been sacked straight away. He's had an extra 8 months+ of wages out of Sunderland.
Good question. If a girls says she's 18 and then she turns out to be 15 who is legally in the wrong?
Well yep, but if he had shown honesty and come clean, it would be better for him in the long run and for everyone else too.
Always better to admit to any mistake rather than lie about it. Isn't that what we all teach our children?
He should have come out, held his hands up and apologised for letting everyone down. I'm sure there's loads of other young Sunderland fans who idolised him too.
He did make a mistake though. He got himself enticed by and entangled with a young fan. Would very much say he made a mistake.
Sent from my Hudl 2 using Tapatalk
I'll leave you to it Otis. We are not going to agree.
To think Labour under Blair were considering reducing the age of consent to 14 about ten years ago.
They certainly do and they talk about all the time as 11 yr olds too. I should know, my daughter is 11.It is sensible if there are restrictions that state they are only a year or two apart. Works like that in plenty of countries. You're naive if you think teenagers don't sleep with each other under 16
Also, as a sidestep, do we need a different category for people like Adam Johnson? I think calling him a paedophile kind of dilutes and cheapens the terminology and the understanding we have of what a paedophile is.
That's because she was a woman...Unbelievable! Surely that is much worse than Johnson. She was a teacher and she started a sexual relationship with a girl when the girl was just 14.
18 months is just ridiculous and a teacher is much more a role model than a footballer any day of the week.
I think if this girl with Johnson had have been 16 or 17 the same desire and lust would have been there. I don't think he targeted her because she was 15.
I believe paedophiles wouldn't be interested in a 17 year old. They want the child to be a child. That's the whole attraction.
A slight generalisation of course, but I think we need differing categories.
Found guilty of one charge is sexual touching.
Sentence range is between 4 and 10 years. Career over.
Only guilty of 'sexual touching' though. Not on the oral sex claim.
Beeb expects him to get 5 years.
Out in two and a half years back playing soon after
Nope. Would doubt that very much. He'll be on the sex offenders register and won't be allowed anywhere near children, so football will be off the agenda surely.
Be interesting to see what the conditions are on his release. Obviously football is a strange one because footballers are treated like idols by fans and are around kids at grounds and the training grounds and many are always actively seeking autographs.We will have to see, it is going to seem a long time in prison for him, he is a silly fool.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?