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Originally Posted by Kizzy

I don't.... I believe this child was groomed, and to place the blame at her parents feet is sickening.
Whatever the child thought or felt is irrelevant as it is the law that they are not mentally mature to make rational desisions at this age which is the whole reason for minimum age for minors:..

Nobody has the transcript for the trial and all we have is our personal opinion in reality and we base our reaction to this hoohar on that.
However if the CPS have chosen to investigate then that suggests some wrong doing in his professional capacity as a judge.

Why is it sickening? The court ruling was that this girl went there willingly, so I think it's more than fair to question the involvement or lack of involvement of parents or role models in this girl's life. 13 year old girls shouldn't be willingly going back to 41 year old mens' houses, nor should they be sexually experienced.

Again, that's what the law says, but are you brain dead until you are a legal adult? No. You have thoughts, feelings and compulsions just like adults do - except that when you're a teenager, your hormones are messing with all of those functions more than they do when you are an adult so you are more likely to do irrational things. The girl needs help, whoever she is and whatever may have happened - because at the end of the day, she had sex with an older man and a crime has been committed. In my reading of the article, it came across as the CPS investigating the barrister because of the outrage at his comments and in reality I don't think they are going to do anything to him... could be wrong, I don't know any more about the trial than anyone else, as you said Kizzy.