Remind me not to send my teenage girls to school in England
Bookworm on Sep 21 2009 at 2:34 pm | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, Education, England, Judges
I gave the post the above title because, in England, even a woman who is a convicted sexual predator gets to keep up her relationship with the victim:
A public school music teacher was today jailed for lesbian sex with a 15-year-old pupil – but was given an astonishing green light to continue the ‘affair’ when out of prison.
The court heard trumpet teacher Helen Goddard, 26, used sex toys and fluffy handcuffs on the ‘vulnerable’ child, helped weave a web of lies so the girl could stay in her flat overnight, and took her on a dirty weekend in Paris, where they joined a gay pride march.
But despite hearing from the girl’s parents the devastating effect the five-month sexual relationship had on the teenager, Judge Anthony Pitts rejected a prosecution request to ban the teacher from contacting her victim for five years, claiming it would be ‘cruel’ to the child.
Instead, she is allowed to write to her now, and will be able to see her in private the moment she is released from jail, likely to be just half-way through her 15-month sentence.
Goddard actually punched the air in victory in the dock when she realised her ‘relationship’ with her still-underage pupil could continue.
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Thats sick. There’s no other way to possibly describe it. Any activist who tries to spin it as something else deserves to be thrown in prison with her. The judge himself (herself?) would in any rational society be disbarred and ejected from the justice system with an almighty thump to the hindparts.
There may always be an England, but its no longer one I have any admiration for, or indeed, any interest in seeing at all.
What the HELL?!?!? My eyebrow just shot off the top of my forehead.
Teenage girls? Hell, I’m afraid to go to Britain these days.
A strong man will eventually come to power in Britain and clean this stuff out. Islam, after all, will guarantee that things like this won’t happen.