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tsubaki said:
Do you know what the mum and dad do for a living? Seeing as they aren't married (or engaged IIRC) I doubt Greenwood has bought them a massive house out in the sticks; its much more likely the dad has a good living anyway.

As for the second bit, if she hasn't reported it then that is her choice - its also very common for domestic abuse victims to not want to report what happened even when the cops get involved, for loads of depressing reasons.
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I understand that, but surely the father should be happy it's come out for his daughters sake?

Apparently the quote is fake anyway so nothing more to add.
 
PhilM said:
If you can't see the difference between today's allegations and those you're referring to, I wouldn't say much more.
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That's not what I said though you muppet, they've been arrested for sexual offences, I'd say that's pretty similar unless you want to be anal about specfics of what they've allegedly been arrested for
 
Blue83 said:
That's not what I said though you muppet, they've been arrested for sexual offences, I'd say that's pretty similar unless you want to be anal about specfics of what they've allegedly been arrested for
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Talking hypothetically of course: a crime involving an adult and one involving minor are really, really not the same thing. The CPS won't see them as pretty similar.

It's like saying common assault and a Sec 18 with intent (GBH) are the same as they're assault offences - when they're clearly, clearly not.

Or in this case, I guess showing your todger in public (public indeceny) would be really similar to that deviant who was abusing corpses in hospitals.
 

emir said:
It's not fake. Daily Mail posted it.
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This was the quote from the Daily Mail actually:

He added: 'The first thing we knew about this was at 6am this morning.

'It is dreadful. I'm just coming to terms with it all. As a father you don't want to know things like that happening to your daughter.

'The police have been round and she has made a statement to them. She is completely devastated by it all.'
 
Nymzee said:
I understand that, but surely the father should be happy it's come out for his daughters sake?

Apparently the quote is fake anyway so nothing more to add.
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What if the daughter doesn't / didn't want it to come out? If she'd told her parents something had happened but didn't want cops involved and they'd made up and been seemingly happy since?

Not saying any of that happened, but we as a society really need to move on from the "well if I'd been smashed in the face I'd do this so anyone who doesn't do that should be treated with suspicion".
 

tsubaki said:
It isn’t, if anything it reads like the conflicted dad of someone suffering domestic abuse who is themselves conflicted over what to do.

We all think “well if that was my kid then I’d smash the partners face in” and do the thing everyone expects a dad to do but what do you do if your kid wants to stay with that person, wants to have a life with them, or wants to protect them from the consequences of their actions?

All you can really do is support them, protect them when they ask and hope they make the right decision in the end, which that statement reads like to me.
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Even that expectation is pretty toxic tbh. For a start how is your Dad either getting hurt or arrested going to improve the situation?

Unfortunately some friends of the family are in the process of trying to get their daughter our of a bad relationship and the Dad has a serious heart condition - he doesn’t need societal expectations that he “do something hard” to “fix” things, doing it would likely get him killed.
 

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