Unfortunately these things tend to set legal precedents that other pedophiles can use to their advantage.
'He seduced you': Married housewife who has sex with boy, 14, walks free from court after judge's extraordinary ruling | Mail Online'He seduced you': Married housewife who had sex with boy, 14, walks free from court after judge's extraordinary ruling
By Paul Sims
Last updated at 3:43 AM on 14th October 2008
Sharon Edwards pleaded guilty to four charges of sexual activity with a child and offering to supply Class A drugs
A judge caused outrage yesterday after he refused to jail a woman who had sex with a 14-year-old boy and instead told her: 'He seduced you.'
Sharon Edwards, 40, bombarded the boy with as many as 50 text messages and emails a day, offered to buy him cocaine and regularly lured him into her bed.
Yet she walked free from court yesterday after Judge Peter Fox QC said the married housewife was an unhappy woman who was unable to resist the advances of a child.
'You had been a very unhappy lady for a very considerable period of time when this 14-year-old boy seduced you, and not you him, both so far as sexual matters and drugs are concerned,' he said.
Her eight-year marriage to a luxury car sales tycoon was falling apart, she felt trapped and lonely and was flattered by the attention the boy was paying her, Teesside Crown Court heard.
But last night the boy's mother attacked the judge's decision. She said: 'He's still a child. If this had been a man he would almost certainly have been jailed but instead she gets to walk free and pick up her life.
'She still lives round here and can now do whatever she wants and go wherever she wants. It's outrageous. I can't believe what's happened.'
Edwards, a mother of two, admitted having sex with the boy on four separate occasions between September last year and January and yesterday was given a 12-month jail term, suspended for two years.
She also pleaded guilty to offering to supply the teenager a Class A drug. The boy, who cannot be named, was a pupil at the same school her two sons attend when the relationship began.
They stayed in contact through text messages and emails and on one occasion Edwards took him to her sister's empty home for a night of sex.
But in January her suspicious husband, Mark, 43, discovered scores of emails she had sent to and received from the boy.
He confronted her at their £500,000 home in Stockton, Teesside, before contacting the youngster's mother.
Judge Fox: 'Exceptional case'
Tina Dempster, prosecuting, said the boy later broke down in tears when his mother asked him if the allegations were true. She then called the police.
'He was crying,' said Miss Dempster. 'He told her he was sorry but he did not know how to stop it. He was extremely distressed, saying that his life was over and he might as well die now.
'The next day he was interviewed by the police and he confirmed that he had had a crush on her and that they had sexual intercourse the previous night.'
Miss Dempster said that Mr Edwards first became suspicious in October last year after discovering that his wife was sending and receiving up to 50 text messages a day from the same number. Despite a blossoming property empire and a successful car sales business, their marriage was struggling to survive.
They had decided to make a go of it but by the end of October Mr Edwards was convinced his wife was having an affair. He confronted her about his suspicions but she denied it.
On January 18 he accessed his wife's MSN messaging programme and changed the settings so that all the sent messages would be saved.
'The next morning he checked the messages and he realised that the person with whom she was having a sexual relationship was the boy,' said Miss Dempster.
In one of the messages the boy asked her to buy some cocaine. She agreed and then said he would not need to pay her.
Deborah Sherwin, defending Edwards, said her client had pleaded guilty because she did not want her young victim to have to give evidence in court.
She added: 'She was a sad and lonely housewife, she was not working, her parents had moved abroad, she was stuck at home, her marriage was failing and this boy paid her attention and she was flattered by it.'
Judge Fox QC described the case as ' exceptional' before telling Edwards he would not be sending her to jail because the boy had seduced her, and not the other way round. 'Of course, you have responsibility as an adult to reject his advances in both regards,' he added.
Last night Claude Knights, director of children's charity Kidscape, said: 'This sentence sets an awful precedent. The judge seems to be suggesting that in some way this is all down to the victim.
'But how on earth can he be regarded as responsible for what happened? He is just a child. He may look mature and he may even be sexually active but he is still a child and this is still abuse.'
Diana Sutton, head of policy at the NSPCC, said: 'It is unacceptable to describe the child victim in this case as the seducer. This gives out completely the wrong message - that sex abuse is the fault of the child, when in reality it never is.'
Edwards was ordered to register as a sex offender for five years.
Comment by Toysoldier:
‘He seduced you’ Toy SoldiersThe ruling in this case is just astounding:A judge caused outrage yesterday after he refused to jail a woman who had sex with a 14-year-old boy and instead told her: ‘He seduced you.’The judge’s reasoning:
Sharon Edwards, 40, bombarded the boy with as many as 50 text messages and emails a day, offered to buy him cocaine and regularly lured him into her bed.
Yet she walked free from court yesterday after Judge Peter Fox QC said the married housewife was an unhappy woman who was unable to resist the advances of a child.
‘You had been a very unhappy lady for a very considerable period of time when this 14-year-old boy seduced you, and not you him, both so far as sexual matters and drugs are concerned,’ he said.
Judge Fox QC described the case as ‘ exceptional’ before telling Edwards he would not be sending her to jail because the boy had seduced her, and not the other way round. ‘Of course, you have responsibility as an adult to reject his advances in both regards,’ he added.At the very least this woman was ordered to register as a sex offender for five years.
However, this judge set a rather dangerous precedent with his ruling. Rather than holding this woman accountable for her actions, he treated her like the victim and actually accused the real victim of a being a predator. The next time a woman abuses a boy in this manner, how difficult is it to believe that her lawyers will cite this case as a reason for that woman to walk?
When you read what this woman did, how often she text messaged her victim, how she was willing to buy cocaine for him, how she used being a “sad and lonely housewife” as an excuse to sexually abuse a 14-year-old boy and keep in mind that this woman was married to a well-off luxury car salesman, the claims that she was seduced do not hold water. She used a boy to satisfy her own selfish, sexual needs and she got away with it because she is female.
Granted, this tends to be the case in the UK. Not too many women charged with sex offenses against minors, whether against teenagers or young children, seem to get convicted of any crime. That may result from UK laws which do not allow for males to be victims of rape and also laws that disallow women to be considered as sexual predators.
This ruling, however, essentially makes it okay to blame the victim (so long as the victim is a boy or man). It allows for people like this woman to abuse children at will. By blaming this boy, this judge has effectively silenced a number of other boys and men who might think twice about coming forward since they will be held responsible for things done to them.
It is a rather sad and sickening ruling, particularly since not did this woman walk for raping a 14-year-old boy, but she walked despite trying to get cocaine to a minor.
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Unfortunately these things tend to set legal precedents that other pedophiles can use to their advantage.
Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way, Universe, Creation
This is outrageous.
It is outrageous on several levels.
There goes a Judge who is a complete fuckweasel; who is paid a small fortune from the public purse to excercise wisdom amd Justice and does niether. In itself this is an outrage. If this Judge has any experience of Truth, Justice, the machinations of evil he could not have failed so spectacularly to resist the batted eyelids of this disgusting woman who rapes a boy and provides dangerous drugs to a child.
It is outrageous that truth and reason are subordinate to argument by lawyers, and make no mistake, the defence by the woman's lawyer was just as outrageous in its dismissal of common reason and simple understanding of criminality as the Judge's collapse of sense. His or her rationalisations fly in the face of Responsibility and Accountability but clearly held sway in the Court presided over by Mr Justice Ffox-Ffuckwit, QC. . How one can mount a defence of this woman without resorting to mendacity and manipulation defies thought.
The prosecutorial presentations and actions in Court must surely have been as weak as water. That is outrageous too. Total incompetence from another 'servant of the Public, taking a handsome salary and yet unable to present an argument cogent enough to show black is black and white is white. She should have had a string of charges laid against her from RAPE onwards. It was a Prima Faci case that could have been successfully presented by a ten-year old.
The boy was fourteen. It is STATUTORY RAPE. No ifs; no buts. Crimes defined simply by age are defiant of defence reasoning. The Prosecutor has barely to open his friggin' mouth.
This judge deserves the death penalty. His position and responsibilities to the people privide a 'multiplier' to his errors make his mistakes not just culpable but deserving of extreme punishment.
Hang the thick Bastard.
I would have sympathy and support on hand for the Boy's mother (and Father) and the husband of this disgusting, wicked woman, if any of them decided to shoot the Judge and rid Society of such embezzling scum and visit proper Justice on the woman. Should they include the two lawyers in some punitice action, preferably slow and gruesome, I would take up knitting.
I have tried all my life to leave the place better than I found it.But there are 6 billion other buggers out there messing it up.I am outnumbered.But...YOU don't just make a difference,you make THE difference.
In the USA Bill O'Reilly's "O'Reilly Factor" TV show often takes on such outrages. They have reporters go right up to these nutty Judges and try to interview them and give voice to the victims and public. Often it leads to changes or maybe the Judge being investigated or retiring.
Is there a TV show like this in your area?
Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way, Universe, Creation
Well, this just absolutely takes the cake.....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ry-ruling.html
'He seduced you': Married housewife who had sex with boy, 14, walks free from court after judge's extraordinary ruling
By Paul SimsLast updated at 3:43 AM on 14th October 2008
Sharon Edwards pleaded guilty to four charges of sexual activity with a child and offering to supply Class A drugs
A judge caused outrage yesterday after he refused to jail a woman who had sex with a 14-year-old boy and instead told her: 'He seduced you.'
Sharon Edwards, 40, bombarded the boy with as many as 50 text messages and emails a day, offered to buy him cocaine and regularly lured him into her bed.
Yet she walked free from court yesterday after Judge Peter Fox QC said the married housewife was an unhappy woman who was unable to resist the advances of a child.
'You had been a very unhappy lady for a very considerable period of time when this 14-year-old boy seduced you, and not you him, both so far as sexual matters and drugs are concerned,' he said.
Her eight-year marriage to a luxury car sales tycoon was falling apart, she felt trapped and lonely and was flattered by the attention the boy was paying her, Teesside Crown Court heard.
But last night the boy's mother attacked the judge's decision. She said: 'He's still a child. If this had been a man he would almost certainly have been jailed but instead she gets to walk free and pick up her life.
'She still lives round here and can now do whatever she wants and go wherever she wants. It's outrageous. I can't believe what's happened.'
Edwards, a mother of two, admitted having sex with the boy on four separate occasions between September last year and January and yesterday was given a 12-month jail term, suspended for two years.
She also pleaded guilty to offering to supply the teenager a Class A drug. The boy, who cannot be named, was a pupil at the same school her two sons attend when the relationship began.
They stayed in contact through text messages and emails and on one occasion Edwards took him to her sister's empty home for a night of sex.
But in January her suspicious husband, Mark, 43, discovered scores of emails she had sent to and received from the boy.
He confronted her at their £500,000 home in Stockton, Teesside, before contacting the youngster's mother.
Judge Fox: 'Exceptional case'
Tina Dempster, prosecuting, said the boy later broke down in tears when his mother asked him if the allegations were true. She then called the police.
'He was crying,' said Miss Dempster. 'He told her he was sorry but he did not know how to stop it. He was extremely distressed, saying that his life was over and he might as well die now.
'The next day he was interviewed by the police and he confirmed that he had had a crush on her and that they had sexual intercourse the previous night.'
Miss Dempster said that Mr Edwards first became suspicious in October last year after discovering that his wife was sending and receiving up to 50 text messages a day from the same number. Despite a blossoming property empire and a successful car sales business, their marriage was struggling to survive.
They had decided to make a go of it but by the end of October Mr Edwards was convinced his wife was having an affair. He confronted her about his suspicions but she denied it.
On January 18 he accessed his wife's MSN messaging programme and changed the settings so that all the sent messages would be saved.
'The next morning he checked the messages and he realised that the person with whom she was having a sexual relationship was the boy,' said Miss Dempster.
In one of the messages the boy asked her to buy some cocaine. She agreed and then said he would not need to pay her.
Deborah Sherwin, defending Edwards, said her client had pleaded guilty because she did not want her young victim to have to give evidence in court.
She added: 'She was a sad and lonely housewife, she was not working, her parents had moved abroad, she was stuck at home, her marriage was failing and this boy paid her attention and she was flattered by it.'
Judge Fox QC described the case as ' exceptional' before telling Edwards he would not be sending her to jail because the boy had seduced her, and not the other way round. 'Of course, you have responsibility as an adult to reject his advances in both regards,' he added.
Last night Claude Knights, director of children's charity Kidscape, said: 'This sentence sets an awful precedent. The judge seems to be suggesting that in some way this is all down to the victim.
'But how on earth can he be regarded as responsible for what happened? He is just a child. He may look mature and he may even be sexually active but he is still a child and this is still abuse.'
Diana Sutton, head of policy at the NSPCC, said: 'It is unacceptable to describe the child victim in this case as the seducer. This gives out completely the wrong message - that sex abuse is the fault of the child, when in reality it never is.'
Edwards was ordered to register as a sex offender for five years.
I am positively floored.
Imagine, for a moment, that the genders are reversed and we are dealing with a 40 year old married man and a 14 year old girl, all other conditions remaining the same. The public outrage would be deafening. The man would be a sick and vile pervert and I can guarantee you he'd be sitting in jail right now. Now, imagine, after having purchased drugs for the girl and having engaged in a sexual relationship with her, the judge told the man that it wasn't his fault, he was lonely and in an unhappy marriage.....this 14 year old girl had seduced him....she was to blame.
Can you even fathom such an event?
Of course, reverse the genders back, and not only is the woman walking away scot-free, but the judge actually has the audacity to place the blame upon the 14 year old boy. I happen to have a 14 year old son and the thought of him seducing anyone, let alone a 40 year old woman, is nothing less than laughable. This has got to be one of the most disgusting rulings yet. A 14 year old boy is now more culpable in a sexual relationship then a 40 year old woman?
I find it interesting that while feminism was supposed to empower women and help them to achieve their highest potential, all I've seen in a feminist society is the status of women becoming closer and closer to that of children. This is the pinnacle of womanhood? Our shining moment in history? When women are so egregiously unaccountable for their behavior it becomes painfully clear that, truly, the age of empowered women will be remembered as anything but our proudest moment.
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12
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Brilliant! (Your analysis, not the news).
Take Care!
"The evil that men do lives on after them;The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar."
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II
You know that I agree with you on that, Kim. But let's not pat ourselves on the back for being so clear sighted. We must try and answer the difficult questions so that we can help change the situation.I find it interesting that while feminism was supposed to empower women and help them to achieve their highest potential, all I've seen in a feminist society is the status of women becoming closer and closer to that of children. This is the pinnacle of womanhood? Our shining moment in history? When women are so egregiously unaccountable for their behavior it becomes painfully clear that, truly, the age of empowered women will be remembered as anything but our proudest moment.
And the situation is that people like the woman Diana Sutton, head of policy at the NSPCC, is at one with the Judge, despite her seeming protestations. It is she and her ilk that run one of the most highly funded NGOs in the UK and spends all that public money and charity money on villifying and demeaning men and adding to the hysteria which results in a 14 year old boy being branded as a Casanova, with seductive 'Power' over a 40 year old woman.
What did she expect?
And the mother, bless her cotton knickers - or is it a thong - who sat silently by while our legal system has produced designer Judges to fit the purse of Feminists, suddenly finds that her family is victimised. She didn't say a word before, I'll bet.
What did she expect?
And she is in a huge company of women - yes, and men - who stick their fingers in their ears and go lalalalalala whenever someone cries out in pain and ignores it because "they are only Men !! (tm)".
More women and men are speaking out, admitedly, and that is a good thing but just how many such cases of complete stupidity do we have suffer before WOMEN WAKE UP TO THEMSELVES.
I no longer count you, Kim, as a modern woman. You poor old-fashioed thing, you, who have Integrity, Character, a Moral position, a sense of personal responsibility and indeed, some shame, as I do, as we all have here.
I am ashamed that we have let the situation get so bad. How long will it be before enough people say, "Enough is Enough".
I have tried all my life to leave the place better than I found it.But there are 6 billion other buggers out there messing it up.I am outnumbered.But...YOU don't just make a difference,you make THE difference.
The boy is lucky he wasn't charged with rape. Sounds like this degenerate moron of a judge would have loved to send him to jail if he had half a chance.
Husband to heel, When women rule the world, The week the women left.....I don´t think they are interested in "male" justice...
Disclaimer:The men's and fathers' movement needs to make sure it never sees females as the enemy,but only misandry--whether from females or from males.If not, we'll become like the bigoted feminists that this movement was formed to oppose.Glenn Sacks
http://antimisandry.com/109272-post69.html
Blog:
http://feck-blog.blogspot.com/
Fecks Warcraft File:
http://antimisandry.com/chit-chat-ma...ile-16039.html
this is the "no fault" concept when wimmin are brought to "justice"![]()
maybe the judge ordered the wimmin to hos chambers after the "trial"
to introduce her to some point of law she had not be acquainted with to date
I posted a question about this on QnA ( http://qna.live.com/ShowQuestion.asp...2E2E1D0CF9E87D ) and a user called "Wicked Witch Of The Midwest" says, and I quote;
It appears to me that there is just no getting through to some women, when there is a situation between a male and a female, and it's negative, it's the male's fault, but when it's positive, it's all the female's doing."i feel as though at 14....you should honestly know better than to have sex with someone 20 years older than you."
Sickening, just sickening. I have a child on the way, if it's a daughter, how the hell am I supposed to convince her that she is equal to men when women are constantly treated like children?
Hugh & Mary Discuss Feminist Related Issues: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...0081D259987DCD
I posted a question about this on QnA ( http://qna.live.com/ShowQuestion.asp...2E2E1D0CF9E87D ) and a user called "Wicked Witch Of The Midwest" says, and I quote;
It appears to me that there is just no getting through to some women, when there is a situation between a male and a female, and it's negative, it's the male's fault, but when it's positive, it's all the female's doing."i feel as though at 14....you should honestly know better than to have sex with someone 20 years older than you."
Sickening, just sickening. I have a child on the way, if it's a daughter, how the hell am I supposed to convince her that she is equal to men when women are constantly treated like children?
Hugh & Mary Discuss Feminist Related Issues: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...0081D259987DCD