He was 15 though (wasnt he) and a dude. And a quick glance around pounstretcher in the whitgift will show you that plenty or 15 year olds have a kid. And thats not a joke.

And I didnt condone f***ing 13 year olds, your are so tiresome with your twist on what people say.

My view point was IF the guy was consenting AND 15 and got his end away (fifteeen is positively late to lose your virginity theses days)then at that age he would be aware of what he was doing, and probably pleased to be doing it.

You cant come forward later in life and blame all your ills on a shag at fifteen. People who turn to drugs only have themselves to blame. I have been through a year from hell with just about as tragic a story as even Simon Bates could Muster, that ended with the death of my wife, leaving me and our three young children behind. Slightly worse set of circumstances than having my cock sucked at 15.

Did I go out and get hooked on smack, of course I f***in didnt I'm stronger than that. And thats my point individuals deal with crisis in different ways, some crumble some stand up.

Blaming this teacher for his drug addiction is farsical, you'd be nearer the truth if you blammed his mum and dad for passing on weak genetics, and thats a stretch in itself !

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

Well said Danny. Sorry to hear of your troubles, good luck for the future, I'm sure you will be fine with your good sense and attitude.

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He was 13 and his gender is irrelevant.

Gender is irrelevant, however she was accused of having sex with the boy on at least 100 occasions between 1993 and 1996. So either she was abusing the s*** out of this kid for three years (up to when he was 15/16) and he hated every minute but kept so quiet even his mum and dad didn’t notice, or he (more likely) enjoyed it.

Consent is build around people being old enough to do so. A child cannot consent to sex with a grown adult. It's perfectly understandable why abuse messes up peoples lives, especially when they occur in younger years. Not related to this case of course as the verdict is in.

A teenager of 15 can get married in certain cultures furthermore to assume a child of that age is not sexually aware is naive, and a dangerous blinkered attitude that through ignorance could lead to teenage pregnancy.
Why is it acceptable to you that abuse at a young age should be used as an excuse to f*** the rest of your life up ? Granted actual child abuse is a horrendous thing to go through ( I fervently do not believe on the evidence available that this scenario was that, neither do the jury). But as I said you can either decide to crumble or fight, it's that decision that shapes the rest of your days.

I'm very sorry that you've had such a horrendous year. That is of course something that is terrible and painful for any family to face.

Thank you. but face it we did and I'm not saying it was easy, but my point was that trauma does not have to effect you for ever. You can beat it.

Was that what you were saying about that Teacher Forrest who was banging that 15 year old student? Or is it different if they are someone's daughter. I must have been different than you when I was 15, because I didn't want to stick it in just anything.

Emotive subjects bring emotive responses, however yes I do feel that an older man taking advantage of a fifteen year old girl is different, same way a bloke who gets his fare share is a silver cock swords man, a women of the same numerical conquests is a slag. I don't profess to know why it appears worse it just does. Obviously thinking about it, it must be horrendous for any victim of child abuse regardless of age or gender. However I still don't think this lad was abused, and neither did a jury.

At fifteen unless you were Brad Pitt, like most other testosterone fuelled lads all you could think about was minge and the fact you couldn’t get any. So the fact he allegedly banged her over 100 times doesn’t sound like abuse to me at all, sounds like a horny Sod who allegedly (unproven) slid his teacher one (or 100). I'm sorry it just doesn't ring true of abuse in this case.

Accusations of teachers f**king students, under the age of 16, have to be investigated. The fact you can dismiss the idea of abuse on the basis that 'he's a bloke' shows a disregard for victims of abuse by adults and people in a position of authority.

Bollicks, just where did I dismiss his claim because of his gender, I dismissed his claim, (as did a jury of his peers) on the basis that the "abuse" lasted 3 years, without any hint of said abuse to his parents. the fact he is now a smack addict who are not to be trusted with the truth (sad but true), and that the "abuse" that lasted 3 years only gets reported 20 years later, when he's a bit skint and a smack head. The balance of probability lies with me on this one.

The simple fact is there is a strong correlation between drug abuse in adults and abuse in childhood. It mean you can blame his addiction on anyone else, ultimately addicts do have themselves to blame. However, and this was the key behind mentioning it, you also can't dismiss someone's allegations on it either, when they're talking about something that happened 20 odd years before.

I am a firm believer in being in control of your own destiny. No one made him stick that needle in his arm. Using trauma as an excuse to use hard drugs is a cop out and no excuse for being weak willed. I bet there are just as many unfortunate victims of abuse that didn’t turn to drugs ?

I know plenty of adults that use drugs none of them were abused as kids, so why do they take drugs ? Recreational or otherwise.

In that I was referring to the assumption it shouldn't have gone to court because he was a junkie and that somehow it was a witch hunt of the woman (who the first trial failed to reach a majority verdict on).

They failed to reach a verdict because there wasn't enough evidence to convince the jury she was a child abuser.

We will never know the full facts of the case, but from what I have read. If any sexual acts did take place then this bloke was not abused but possibly a very willing participant, that has since fell on hard times, and saw an opportunity to make some cash, that has failed.

Edited by dannyh (14 Sep 2015 3.47pm)

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

Rolfe banged that girl into her 20s, doesn't make it any less abuse. Teenagers tend to be stupid, plenty of abuse victims have been having sex with their abuser by some form of consent, many at the time enjoying it. That's what really f**king makes it sickening when they grow up and realise they were being used.

I think its right to be dubious, but given the CPS and Polices record with pursuing sex abuse cases, they felt they had sufficient evidence of a crime to be brought.

I wouldn't trust a smack addict to even lie to me, unless they had a load of smack. But that doesn't mean that their experiences can just be dismissed either. Unfortunately I know more than a few people who were abused who went down that path.