"I'm sorry", she replied before he went back down to his prison cell for five years.
A young, "exemplary Maths teacher" fell in love with a pupil who fully returned that love. Everything was consensual, including the few months of under-age sex and the running away to France for seven days. Yet, he was branded a paedophile, as having groomed the young 15 year old woman and, as having abducted her for his own evil ends. He got a sentence of 5.5 years in prison (actually, for telling the truth over the five times they had sex) and can never again work with children, even in a voluntary capacity. He was labelled a sex offender for the rest of his life. All this, when the pair are likely to stay in touch while he is in prison. What a waste of an excellent and promising young teacher who loved and loved deeply for a young woman, now 16, who seems to have felt exactly the same for him.
From a similar case with one of my daughter's teachers who was also respected and well liked by staff and pupils, Jeremy Forrest will end up marrying the woman when he comes out of prison. Has society really acted responsibly and proportionally and sensibly?
In shocking contrast, all the main political parties, on both sides of the Atlantic, have waged what will be a 13 year war of terrorism, invasion and occupation of two defenceless Muslim nations in the Middle East. This war crime has gone unpunished and has been widely accepted as being a necessary evil to bring democracy and freedom to all in Iraq and Afghanistan and, education for girls. With over a decade of aggression and killings by the rich and powerful West to, supposedly, prevent terrorism in the US and the UK , there has been no widespread protest by Christians who vote, en masse for the war parties. What truly warped thinking. What truly immoral and illegal behaviour for two supposedly advanced and civilised nations. And, nations founded on the Bible, too. Perhaps, that explains it (from the violent history of Israel in the Old Testament)!
In my daughter's class, I thought the young teacher was an excellent prospect for my own daughter! There was nothing wrong with the young man but he was sentenced to twelve months in prison as a lesson to others, the judge said. It was such an effective lesson that Jeremy Forrest had never heard of what happened to my daughter's teacher. Forrest had no idea that society took that kind of thing more seriously than our society's invasion, occupation and slaughter in defenceless Muslim lands for twelve years and rising.
What a truly punitive, condemnatory, revengeful and sick society I live in. "Make love not war" John Lennon.
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