[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zee

Well I'd argue against that point because if the girl was acting as "predatory" as the barrister claimed she was then she's evidently not got a very healthy attitude towards sex. If she's a victim in the true sense of the word then this experience will seriously damage her life and therefore it's not "all about the male" - she is a victim and she needs support. On the other hand, if she's only a victim in the sense that she is underage and the law was violated, she still needs support because to be sexually active with a much older man when you're 13 years old is not a healthy attitude towards sex; so it absolutely matters whether she was dressed in stockings and suspenders and performed lap dances in the playground, every bit as much as it matters if she was innocently snatched from walking home and abused by an evil man. Either way, this is a child who has been violated.

..for me that's all that's relevant Zee because otherwise who is to decide what 'provocative' is..that seems like quite dangerous territory, what different people would deem to be 'provocative' ..maybe a 5/6yr old in a beauty pageant who is dressed and dancing 'provocatively' in her act...it's absolutely the parent's responsibility to educate and protect a child but in this case that didn't happen, so then it's for the law to intervene..which they didn't either..she was totally let down...