Due To This Brave Young Women, We May See Those Who Should Have Been There When They Were Needed, Prosecuted At Last?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4336740/Woman-raped-Rotherham-sex-gang-leader-launches-Sammy-s-law.html

/// She told the Daily Mail: ‘Both police and social workers failed us and they should be held accountable. They deliberately turned a blind eye and covered this up. ///

/// ‘There were people who did nothing and allowed girls to be abused and the abusers to get away with it. Some of the professionals I believe will be prosecuted, but a lot of people will get away with it.’ ///

Also should those who committed crimes while under the control of their abuses be granted pardons?

[Gromit]

// She launched a campaign for a ‘Sammy’s Law’, to give a pardon for crimes committed by sexual abuse victims while under the control of domineering criminal groomers. //

Not sure anyone should be pardoned for committing crimes on the pretext that they have been the victim of a different crime?

The prisons would soon be emptied if an abusive or dominant partner was the basis for an appeal or to be let off. I have no idea what crimes Sammy was prosecuted for, for which she wants to be pardoned. She may have a case, I don't know the circumstances of her case, but a 'Law' applied to convicted criminals countrywide, on the basis that they committed the crime for their dominant partner.

Good to see the Mail supporting convicted criminals and their campaign for a a pardon.

[andy-hughes]

We have to hope so.

Our papers are full daily with instances where protection and support were not in place, and vulnerable people suffered, and criminals escaped, but there are instances like this, where hopefully the mills of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.

I do not think people can be pardoned from crimes committed, because the burden of proof would be far too difficult to establish in the majority of cases.

[Gromit]

Just spotted her offences at the end

// She said she had convictions for possession of an offensive weapon, common assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm from her teenage years with Hussain, and believes she should be given a pardon for these offences. //

Her offenses are serious, and should not be pardoned.

[youngmafbog]

No she should not be ruddy well pardoned.

[MallyJ]

I suspect that the majority of those who are in prison could claim to be there as a result of abuse of one type or another during their young years. I am equally sure that there are a very large number of people who suffered at the hands of adults during childhood who have had the strength to walk away and behave within the boundaries of the law and the norms of society. What really has to happen is abuse of all types has to be recognised quickly and acted on so that children are helped to overcome the, often desperate, circumstances that were their childhoods. Abuse comes in many many forms.