Thread: Will Oprah get Justice?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7530610.stm

Oprah school abuse trial starts

A former matron at Oprah Winfrey's school in South Africa has pleaded not guilty at the start of her trial for allegedly abusing students.

The six teenage alleged victims will testify in private, as the prosecutor said they were "very scared".

Virginia Mokgobo, 28, who worked at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy near Johannesburg, was arrested last year.

The US talk-show host has said she was herself abused as a child and has campaigned against abuse in the US. (P. Altogether now.... aaaaahh !)

The school was opened in 2007 at a cost of $40m (£20m).

Ms Winfrey pledged to build the academy after a meeting with former South African President Nelson Mandela six years ago, and personally interviewed many of the South African girls from low-income families who applied for the initial 150 places at the school. (P. But overlooked interviewing the friggin' staff, eh. Maybe Oprah was too interested in young girls herself)

Ms Mokgobo was arrested last year on charges including assault, indecent assault and soliciting under-age girls to perform indecent acts.

Ms Winfrey has described the charges as one of the most devastating experiences in her life, and said she had not renewed the head mistress's contract. (P. What? The Headmistress must have been misled by a MAN !! (tm), shirley)

She praised the students who reported the alleged abuse.

"My experience with child predators is that no-one ever, ever abuses just one child," she said last November.

She said that because of the high rates of rape and sexual abuse in South Africa, she had tried to ensure predators would not be able to reach students at the school. (P. She tried. Well that's OK then. Friggin' shame she FAILED)

Oprah Winfrey school abuse: The shocking facts


29 July 2008, 14:58 GMT + 2

http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/hartley/2008/07/29/oprah-winfrey-school-abuse-the-shocking-facts/
The trial of a teacher at Oprah Winfrey’s South African school got underway today in earnest and the testimony is shocking to say the least. This trial places one of the biggest figures in global media in the spotlight and it will make waves around the world. How the media deals with a trial in which a major media personality is involved will be keenly watched.
An extract from the testimony:
The State alleges that Tiny Makopo indecently assaulted girls aged 13 and 14 by kissing them with an open mouth, touching their breasts, forcing them to touch her breasts and creeping into their beds and telling them to be lesbians.

She is accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl by slapping her, pulling her hair, forcing her to sit on a bare floor for 15 minutes and rubbing custard into her hair.

One of the girls was allegedly throttled and told she was so stupid she did not deserve to be at the school.
Read our story here.
Tags: abuse, Oprah Winfrey, school, South Africa, The Times, trial

Now, when a sexist joke is told in a workplace, the employer gets whacked with a hefty fine.

When abuse is discovered in a 'Home', the managers get jailed. (The male ones that is. Paedophiles!).

Here is Saint Oprah of the Holy Feminazi, setting up a school and putting women in charge of girls. Who is usually the best protector of children? It sure isn't women.

Will Oprah, the Saint I/C, who puts a vicious lesbian in with young girls, get jailed? You wish !