(01 Jul 2014, 9:28 am)Dan wrote We had quite an extensive debate about all of these 'celebrities' being found guilty of indecent assaults thirty years after they actually happened a little while ago.
It's always good to bring something controversial up in a lesson where the teachers can't help but to get involved. Great way to pass a lesson, if nobody is arsed about working.
We brought this up in Maths though, and everyone had different views. A lot of people questioned, if these victims of the indecent assault can come forward now after someone else has, why didn't they do it before? Surely any evidence would have been clearer back then, and I'd assume that it would have been kept under wraps a lot more than it would with today's level of media. One girl pointed out that she'd prefer the perpetrator of the abuse to be named and shamed, but another said it would drag her name through the media too, so she wasn't keen on the idea of doing it.
By and large, the teacher was very much in favour of all the victims coming forward to get these people off the streets (he put it a lot differently, as he was rather wound up about it).
Mind, didn't beat the time we got him onto his views about Margaret Thatcher. He was full on shouting about her - saying we were too young to be able to tell him that he shouldn't disrespect her, whatever she had done in the past.
Even in death, that old goat is as divisive as ever, lol, I tended to keep away from that argument, I was alive in the last year's as Prime Minister but was only a child. So I never pitched into that debate while at the same time laughing at people who had never been around then have an opinion and ultimately not having a clue what there talking about.
As for the current crop of old celebs getting done for Rape, Sexual/Indecent Assault, I have often wondered how many come forward because they see an easy payday, I often how many are actually telling the truth...
As for not coming forward before now, the simple answer to that is, if they tried to report it, say, 30 years ago, they would have been branded dirty little slappers trying to ruin somebodies life because they have some kind of vendetta...We saw exactly the same thing back in the 1990's when The Waterhouse Report was done, with all the child abuse scandals in the care system in the 60's, 70's and 80's