Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jun 19
th, 2014 at 7:47am:
I don't think they'll put him in jail. I believe that the punishment of the trial is sufficient (if found guilty).
You have to remember when these alleged events took place. Back then the fondling of young girls was commonplace, it was swept under the carpet, not to be spoken about......men did it, men got away with it, that's just how it was.
I've asked women if they were 'touched inappropriately' when they were young. Surprisingly, many were, usually by frisky old uncles or their friends daddy. It's just something that happened, they learn to live with it, simply because it would be more trouble to prosecute after such a long time, and they also believe that no one would believe them anyway.
Right or wrong? Who knows?
I know ..Pansi....
I was one of those 'touched inappropriately'.
( to keep it nice) ,
Not by an uncle or a daddy... by a fat bastard who ran a milk bar, when I was about six yrs old. It was on the way to and from school on my bicycle. I never knew his name.
I won't go into details..... but I DIDN'T understand what was happening at first. But it was soon clear it was wrong.. not right, so I said I had to go ..Mum's waiting for me ....
Then I left, without fuss, as quickly as possible.
He let me go.. no doubt hoping I'd come back..
Never went there again... and didn't tell anyone about it for at least 18 mths... then it was my Mum. What could she do then...?? I never even knew about 'prosecuting ' ... what should I have done then.???
No doubt you'll all have opinions...
I actually chose to forget about it... and it was sometime in my late twenties when I remembered it again..and it explained to me why I have a creeping horror of obese men.!!