[Livia]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Oh yes definitely.

I'm not saying this case is anything at all like mine, was just trying to point out how the parents cant always stop things like this. Of course they need to take responsibility for their child, but prosecuting them over something they may have tried to control is a bit harsh IMO. I would say they have been punished enough by having their daughter go through this in the first place :S

Of course theres always a chance they simply didnt care and just let her get on with what she wanted to do because they couldnt be arsed to look after her properly...but I dont think its always as simple as saying that the parents should have stopped it.

I just think it's got to start somewhere... the restraint... the accepting of consequences. This country has a shameful image the world over of drunkeness. Any town centre on a Saturday night paints a vivid picture of what we've become - boys fighting and vomiting, girls laying in the road or stumbling along drunkenly, it's horrible, and it doesn't really happen in other countries. Other places seem to have developed a healthy attitude to alcohol, but here, we have to drink until we're incoherent. A little off topic now, I think... but whatever, however drunk this girl was, she certainly didn't deserve what happened to her.