SapphireSteel
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2012
- Messages
- 6,788
- Reaction score
- 105
Most victims of sexual abuse do not acquire an agent and shop their "story" around all the tv channels and magazines in the country.
:moo:
:moo:
The headline reads to me that Rolf is accused of 'making indecent images' and not receiving them.
Rolf Harris charged with indecent assault and making indecent images of a child
BY EUROPE CORRESPONDENT MARY GEARIN, STAFF
UPDATED FRI 30 AUG 2013, 3:42 PM AEST
As an artist, perhaps he has a broader scope in studying the human body?
Most victims of sexual abuse do not acquire an agent and shop their "story" around all the tv channels and magazines in the country.
:moo:
Another thing that is worth pointing out is that you go actively looking for someone to make some sort of accusation against a celebrity or someone well known, you will be almost guaranteed to find at least one if not more. It is something that comes with being a celebrity.
And that is exactly what is happening in this operation Yewtree. They are actively seeking accusations of things that happened a very long time ago, and not surprisingly they are finding them. It is the same sort of thing that was going on with all the satanic abuse trials of the 90s - lots of accusations were made, but there was pretty much no evidence and probably almost all of those accusations were false or "created" through hysteria.
She's acquired an agent? If that's true, I'm afraid it damages her credibility. A defense lawyer is going to have a field day with that.
I know there have been false charges laid against people in the past. But given the highly prominent international nature of this case, do you think the police/detectives would be actively pursuing him, and at his age, after all this time? What explanation would you have for them to do this, if there isn't enough evidence to charge him and take it before a court? LE and the courts, particularly in the UK, are pushed to the limit. Why would they be taking the action they have taken if they don't feel there is a strong case? That is the part that doesn't make sense to the argument that he is innocent. This is also beyond our own personal opinions of the single interview of one potential victim.
And I fail to see how treating this woman differently to any other potential victim on this site is relevant, based on lack of evidence. How many other cases on WS are respectful of a potential victim's complaint, without any other evidence and before a decision in court. Why single this woman out?
As there hasn't been a comment from Rolf, a trial, a guilty judgement, nor a sentencing, I cannot possibly know.
All I know is that he has been charged, and what some woman has said on tv.
How anyone can assume guilt on these two factors alone, is beyond me.
:seeya:
I hadn't heard that she'd acquired an agent and was shopping her story around. Where is this in MSM? I must have missed it.
We don't really know what the charges consist of yet, but that headline could be very misleading. When the CPS in Britain charge someone with downloading child *advertiser censored*, the offense is described as creating an image, in other words you've created an image on your computer.
If someone is literally making their own child *advertiser censored* they're charged with production of child *advertiser censored*, not creating an image.
Mrs Norris, the artistic study of the body has been on my mind. Artists study nudes and do you think while painting a mature aged women, he would have them along with under aged studies? I mean, the position of mature aged body would require many nudes. Just asking as a non artists.
Not about my body but the Queen.
Do you know him?
Do you know "what he's really like"?
No?
ullhair:
The headline reads to me that Rolf is accused of 'making indecent images' and not receiving them.
Rolf Harris charged with indecent assault and making indecent images of a child
BY EUROPE CORRESPONDENT MARY GEARIN, STAFF
UPDATED FRI 30 AUG 2013, 3:42 PM AEST
As an artist, perhaps he has a broader scope in studying the human body?