Quite a few ‘famous names’, well, for some it’s ‘used to be famous names’, are fingered and in the process of waiting for court dates during which they will have to answer charges relating to child sex abuse, rape, etc., etc., dating back to ‘whenever’, usually decades ago.
Naturally it would be wrong to comment on individuals or to say anything that may prejudice their cases, one way or the other.
These ‘famous names’ I speak of are of specific interest to me because they reside in the world of radio broadcasting past and present.
What I find fascinating and worthy of comment is the reaction of those who are around the ‘accused’. They talk about the ‘accused’ with the same sympathetic platitudes normally reserved for those who are dying of cancer, or have a very dear sibling dying of cancer.
It is bizarre seeing statements like, “So good to see XXXXX at the -bla- reunion, despite the stress he must be under, poor thing.”
Or they’ll be sending them messages via Facebook, not too different to the messages that would be sent to somebody facing a double amputation through no fault of their own.
It seems everybody feels ‘sorry’ for the accused. Everybody considers them to be going through ‘trying times’.
The ‘accused’ are of course innocent until proven guilty in the UK.
Should they be found guilty, then they will have committed some of the most heinous and unforgivably awful crimes. Crimes that will have damaged very young human beings forever. Should they be found not guilty, then mud will stick and rumbles about ‘no smoke without fire’ will blight them forever.
But, those offering ‘sympathy’ ahead of trial have already made a decision. They’ve decided the ‘accused’ are innocent and the whole experience is so tedious and a bit of a trivial distraction for them.
Either that, or they are of the era and mindset that under-age sex and rape is perfectly fine. A mindset that seemed to exist in the days when Jimmy Saville type sexual predatory was an unspoken of ‘norm’. This kind of mindset makes these sympathisers as guilty as any of the accused proven to have been involved in such things.
Just as the Catholic Church is slowly doing, it is time for these sympathisers to wake up and accept that child sexual abuse is wrong and they should be ashamed they have trivialised it.
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