Adam Johnson Trial Verdict

[Sir Lancelot]

If course they would be a child. A young child. Not a adolescent 15 year old. Totally different.
I'm not defending anyone. Johnson is a cretin and a sex offender but continual use of the term "Child" is an emotive word designed to stimulate horror in people. It's what the press do but it's not a true image of what people see when they think of the word "Child".

It's bad enough what happened. Why should SAFC supporters make it worse by giving energy to soundbite words in this like "Child"

This is the real situation. Johnson isn't attracted to children and its risible to suggest that he is. He was attracted by a fifteen year old who looked like a mature adult woman. There's a huge difference between what he has done and what a paedophile does.

He took advantage of a willing fifteen year old, he did not force himself on her at any point. In many countries what he did would not be an offence because the age of consent is lower.

Perhaps if we are going to sexualise our children at increasingly young ages we need to consider reducing the age of consent. Just this morning in my newsfeed on Facebook are two under sixes wearing lipstick to go shopping with their mother, and another little girl posed in a bath with a bottle of water.

Johnson is apparently a serial shagger who just takes advantage of women, in the same way that he did with this girl. In the what's app messages there is not a hint that he saw her as a human being, she was just there for his sexual pleasure, regardless of her age. That's the sort of man that he is.

An older woman would have seen that he had no personal interest in her and would have either carried on the affair or moved on elsewhere. A fifteen year old doesn't have the maturity to do that, even though the silly cows think that they know it all. The age of consent is intended to save them from themselves by protecting them from those who would prey on them. But she is not a child and it is wrong to call her a child just to make this sound worse than it is.

If the FA gets involved and decides to penalise the club for not acting sooner to suspend Johnson, then the obvious punishment is the removal of points. Could Sunderland be relegated irrespective of what they do on the field?

 

[Useless at Roker]

I've had enough of this crap

 

[AC Mack]

If I was handed a file of court documents I wouldn't read them either, I was almost sacked once because a colleague I was with read court documents that hadn't been filed with the Court, I hadn't realised shed read them but because I managed her we were both nearly sacked. The barristers caused hell on, accused us of contempt of court which theoretically it was.

Why would you be given them if you weren't meant to read them?

 

[RTGAdmin]

I am not one to stifle opinions and conversations, but the arguments in this thread are now just going around in circles.

I doubt anyone is going to change their view on whether the club was right with their decisions or not, and most people have already said their bit, so time to close the thread and move on.