I don't think this guy is a perv!!!!

You only have to cross the Channel and it would have been totally legal.

(Unless, as I commented earlier, he was teaching the girl at the time).

What this all boils down to, of course, is that after the Soham murders there have been this heinous calls for accusations against someone being taken as reason to bar them from certain jobs. ACCUSATIONS.

Such hysteria from the public and media causes this. I will be sick to my stomach if unproven allegations are ever used as a basis to do anyhting at all to someone.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
You only have to cross the Channel and it would have been totally legal.

(Unless, as I commented earlier, he was teaching the girl at the time).

What this all boils down to, of course, is that after the Soham murders there have been this heinous calls for accusations against someone being taken as reason to bar them from certain jobs. ACCUSATIONS.

Such hysteria from the public and media causes this. I will be sick to my stomach if unproven allegations are ever used as a basis to do anyhting at all to someone.

Agreed!

Originally posted by Ushgarak

Other than his original offence- which was considered so trivial that he only received a caution, nothing approaching a conviction- he's done nothing illegal since then.

(and I would be interested to know if he was teaching this girl at the time, because that's a different matter). But regardless, he thought he was in the clear, and he does not deserve the reputation he now has- i.e. unable to find a job anywhere and having to live with police-assisted protection due to the possibility of vigilante attacks.

Precisely. Unless there was a fiduciary breach, it seems rather minor (excuse the pun).

Originally posted by Ushgarak

You only have to cross the Channel and it would have been totally legal.

True, as well, and a whole other thorny issue.

I know of people that have been with their partner since they were 14-15, and their partner was above the age of consent.

All a very weird set of double standards and hypocrisy.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Precisely. Unless there was a fiduciary breach, it seems rather minor (excuse the pun).

True, as well, and a whole other thorny issue.

I know of people that have been with their partner since they were 14-15, and their partner was above the age of consent.

All a very weird set of double standards and hypocrisy.

All true!