April 2015

Drunken women put themselves in danger – judge’s wrist slapped

Drunken women put themselves in danger – judge’s wrist slapped “I find it incredible that young people get so drunk that they don’t know who they’re with.” The judge concerned was sentencing a woman who had punched another woman in a drunken affray and linked his remarks to the killing of a young woman after a …

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What does he expect? Absentee father attempts to coerce his daughters.

What does he expect? Absentee father attempts to coerce his daughters A father abandons his wife and two young daughters. One of the daughters is subsequently treated roughly by his new wife. Five years later the father asks the courts to insist that the girls, now aged fourteen and sixteen, renew their contact with him. …

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Mother’s love life – more important than daughters’ safety

Last week The Times reported that two young girls are to be locked in their bedroom at night with intruder alarms so that their mother can sleep with a man who has served a prison sentence for a sexual offence against a girl who was under 13. Part of the report justifying the arrangements explained that the man slept on the side …

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Punishing the right parents

Local friends were refused permission recently to take their children out of school for a few days in order to enjoy a family holiday; they took them, nonetheless but are concerned that they will now face a fine. Last week there were reports of two killings by teenagers, one thirteen, the other fourteen. The Times did not so much as  mention their parents, let alone suggest that they …

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