Child
porn addicts go free as love-lorn teacher gets five years: is there any
limbo-level of iniquity our Establishment cannot breach?
The Slog: Jeremy
Forrest, the maths teacher who fled with a pupil to France, has been
jailed for five-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to five new
charges of sexual activity with a child. He had also been charged with abduction of a child.
What follows may disturb some Sloggers, but I can’t apologise for
that: this is what I think based on the evidence, and this is what I
believe is going on. What the Establishment has been trying to do here –
pretty much from the day the Elm House saga emerged – is to obfuscate
meanings and blur lines between what I would call “irresponsible sex
with a minor” and “mainstream psychotic, sadistic abuse of innocent
children sometimes involving organised international trafficking”.
Last September I posted a piece
about Jeremy Forrest and Megan Stammers. I urge you all to read it and
make your own minds up, but this is a paragraph that still holds water
for me:
‘Were
this to be my problem to solve as an Education and/or Home Office
Minister, I would extradite the couple and fire Mr Forrest: he will have
a moral turpitude clause in his contract (so he must pay the price for
obeying the dictates of the purple helmet) while Miss Stammers is 15 not
18 – and must therefore be returned to the legal control of her
parents.’
Well, as we can all read today, that didn’t happen. And at the end of the 2012 Slogpost, I suspected just that:
‘I’ll
be interested to see in the coming days what the political class makes
of it all. This is, we should remember, the political class which has
tolerated an iniquitous and endemic minority ring of devious paedophiles
in both our educational and childcare systems for over 30 years now.
Were they to bay for Forrest’s blood, it would represent hypocrisy of
the highest order.
So I imagine that’s what they’ll do.’
How utterly predictable the Establishment of
our nation is. Let me present my evidence for seeing it this way: but
let me at the outset once more repeat that I do not condone
what Mr Forrest did, because he betrayed a position of trust. I said at
the time, “Fire the bugger”. But to give him a five and a half year
sentence while child-buggerers walk free? It’s beyond belief.
Take a look at this shot of Forrest and Stammers as they left Britain:
He is 30, she is 15. That’s roughly the same age difference between my estranged wife and I.
Ms Stammers has developed an obvious bust, hips and all the stance of a woman. To accuse Forrest of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child – on the basis of this shot alone – is ridiculous.
The Court – and the Judge – openly admit
that Ms Stammers gave her full and enthusiastic consent to their escape
abroad. So I need someone – anyone – to explain for me please: how can
you abduct a mature teenager who is a willing accomplice to flight?
Isn’t this like rape with consent?
Now get this: Judge Lawson banned him from working or volunteering with children and unsupervised contact with children forever. Utterly astonishing.
This piece of judicial ignorance comes hot on the heels of Michael Gove’s lunatic decision in relation to an infinitely more pernicious (and genuine) paedophile teacher as featured here last week:
‘Geoffrey Bettley, an RE teacher from a
Catholic School in West Yorkshire, who had almost 200 indecent images of
children on his computer, is allowed to continue to teach, the
Education Secretary has decided. Michael Gove said “I have considered
this case and the need to be proportionate and also to act in the public
interest … Although the findings in this case are serious ones, I
support the recommendation of the panel that a prohibition order should
not be applied in this case.”’
Now let’s turn to how the Daily Telegraph was guilty of twisting the interpretation of Court events. It noted sanctimoniously that ‘As he was convicted of child abduction, it emerged that he is unrepentant and intends to be reunited with the teenager on his release from prison.’
Now, I think Jeremy Forrest should repent
the sin of being a teacher in a position of responsibility, while
letting his sexual urges get the better of him. But the way the word is
used in the article, the imputation is clear: he must be an incorrigible
abuser of children. Bollocks. And, is he guilty – two key words here –
of child abduction? Absolute crap – no he isn’t. Neither word
can be legally proved – indeed, in a case like this they should have
been ruled inadmissable.
Think on this: Ms Stammers has remained
faithful to her lover throughout the trauma. She mouthed “I’m sorry” as
he was led down. Mr Forrest is going to serve over five years in a
prison where knuckleheads will, no doubt, make his life a misery. Openly
kiddie-porn admiring teacher Geoffrey Bettley, by comparison, has not
just retained his freedom: he’s retained his right to be near children –
genuine children – pornographic images of whom he is clearly an addicted collector.
As I have written many times before, there
are only two possible extrapolations from the quite astoundingly
hypocritical nature of this case: either the media are bone idle and the
Establishment boneheaded, or there is more in play here than we know
about.
I stress again: I am not excusing what Jeremy Forrest did. I am merely pointing out on an evidenced basis why the media/judiciary response to it is inexcusable to the point of being highly suspicious.
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