[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LiamBB

It goes without saying that this is a truly horrific thing to happen to anyone but The Sun's agenda is pretty clear here. I mean "The issue is what were they doing there in the first place?" for example. I'm sorry but that's not the issue, rape is the issue. And "They arrived in the country without documents claiming to be under 18 and from Syria. But the reality is they could be older". What's that word... evidence??? Nope let's just make casual assumptions in order to detract from the real issue just to add to all their other anti-migrant propaganda. The fact that this debate is even about migration shows how completely manipulative this article and The Sun newspaper is. How dare they use this girls pain to further a political agenda. It's shameful

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[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by LiamBB

It goes without saying that this is a truly horrific thing to happen to anyone but The Sun's agenda is pretty clear here. I mean "The issue is what were they doing there in the first place?" for example. I'm sorry but that's not the issue, rape is the issue. And "They arrived in the country without documents claiming to be under 18 and from Syria. But the reality is they could be older". What's that word... evidence??? Nope let's just make casual assumptions in order to detract from the real issue just to add to all their other anti-migrant propaganda. The fact that this debate is even about migration shows how completely manipulative this article and The Sun newspaper is. How dare they use this girls pain to further a political agenda. It's shameful

[JoshBB]

Originally Posted by LiamBB

It goes without saying that this is a truly horrific thing to happen to anyone but The Sun's agenda is pretty clear here. I mean "The issue is what were they doing there in the first place?" for example. I'm sorry but that's not the issue, rape is the issue. And "They arrived in the country without documents claiming to be under 18 and from Syria. But the reality is they could be older". What's that word... evidence??? Nope let's just make casual assumptions in order to detract from the real issue just to add to all their other anti-migrant propaganda. The fact that this debate is even about migration shows how completely manipulative this article and The Sun newspaper is. How dare they use this girls pain to further a political agenda. It's shameful

Very well put. I agree with everything here.

[Denver]

Originally Posted by LiamBB

It goes without saying that this is a truly horrific thing to happen to anyone but The Sun's agenda is pretty clear here. I mean "The issue is what were they doing there in the first place?" for example. I'm sorry but that's not the issue, rape is the issue. And "They arrived in the country without documents claiming to be under 18 and from Syria. But the reality is they could be older". What's that word... evidence??? Nope let's just make casual assumptions in order to detract from the real issue just to add to all their other anti-migrant propaganda. The fact that this debate is even about migration shows how completely manipulative this article and The Sun newspaper is. How dare they use this girls pain to further a political agenda. It's shameful

It's a common thing for immigrants to come over 'lose there paperwork' and claim to be under 18 as the benefits of being under 18 are so better and the UK will not send a child back to there own country .

[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Adam.

It's a common thing for immigrants to come over 'lose there paperwork' and claim to be under 18 as the benefits of being under 18 are so better and the UK will not send a child back to there own country .

That might be true but it doesn't change the fact that regarding THIS case, there is no evidence for it. Like I said, it's an assumption, being used as propaganda to fuel anti-migrant sentiment. The Sun know their audience and the way they've used this story to sell to them is actually very clever, albeit irresponsible and uninformed.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by LiamBB

It goes without saying that this is a truly horrific thing to happen to anyone but The Sun's agenda is pretty clear here. I mean "The issue is what were they doing there in the first place?" for example. I'm sorry but that's not the issue, rape is the issue. And "They arrived in the country without documents claiming to be under 18 and from Syria. But the reality is they could be older". What's that word... evidence??? Nope let's just make casual assumptions in order to detract from the real issue just to add to all their other anti-migrant propaganda. The fact that this debate is even about migration shows how completely manipulative this article and The Sun newspaper is. How dare they use this girls pain to further a political agenda. It's shameful

..(I typed a huge post..../but the forum went funny, peculiar and it was lost..)...anyways, the gist ...I do agree Liam with agendas/slants etc and the media but with this, I interpreted 'what were they doing there in the first place' as being in the residential care home as opposed to what are they doing in the country but maybe that's what you also mean ...I do think with this, it obviously is something that should never have happened, so should refugees who haven't had their papers etc verified, be temporarily homed with the 'vulnerable'..?..and what does that mean exactly anyway because personally, I would say that refugees are part of the 'vulnerable...so hmmm, it's quite confusing atm and it was also meant to be somewhere which was fully supervised, so how could anything like this ever happen....


...anyways, atm much of the media is reporting 4 males as having being charged and 2 having been questioned but no charges...I hope the people who have done this are brought to justice and that she is not 'let down' now in the care and counselling etc she needs and I think a lot to be looked into with this...

[Josy]

Poor girl, hopefully if guilty the men are punished accordingly.

Originally Posted by JoshBB

'Send them all back'

What a blatantly xenophobic comment to make? Lets just hope you never move abroad and that five english people don't rape a child there. Let's hope nobody makes the same generalisation that you just did that all of the syrian refugees pose a risk of raping young children.. honestly I can't believe the ignorance in what you said.

Josh you seriously need to stop being so quick to jump to conclusions and label people, in doing so you are doing the very thing you claim to hate....

[lostalex]

this is what donald trump said would happen...