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Re: You couldn't make it up, last + 1 Posted on: Thu, 8 May 2008 18:11:30 +0100


"Michael Swift" wrote in message
news:3Jx+GIAS+yIIFw9Q@ntlworld.com...
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> I wasn't in court so maybe there's more to this than meets the eye but
> on the face of it this silly old fart wants taking out and shooting.

Which silly old fart?

I suppose you mean the judge. I'd ratehr you took out the dimwit journalist
who wrote the report, or his editor, and shot them instead.

>
> From ITV Teletext today (8th May)
>
>
>
> Girl 'blamed' over paedophile

Who blamed her? Not the judge, as far as one can tell from the report.

>
> A "high-risk" paedophile who groomed and abused an 11-year-old girl
> while on her school lunch break has walked free as her mother wept in
> court.

The mother weeping in court is an irrelevant detail. What is needed is a
proper explanation of what happened to the defendant. Convicted but given a
non custodial sentence? Acquitted because of some flaw in the prosecution
case? Hell, I bet the journalist was so pissed after his lunchtime trip to
the pub that he has no idea.

>
> Jon Dixon, 20, told the girl to lie to her parents as he arranged to
> meet her after they met through the internet.

That bit sounds plausible.

>
> At Manchester Crown Court, Judge Robert Atherton rejected a probation
> report, saying the girl "welcomed" . and was "inappropriately aware"
> of ..

Both of which may easily be factually accurate. It doesn't mean he was
blaming the girl, or condoning the abuse.

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