Just a thought

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  1. Sup

    SuperTyke Well-Known Member

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    Why is it that a 15 year old girl who is judged by a court to have been groomed by adults so that she will send videos and images of herself (from a legal point of view that would be distributing child pornography) is generally ruled as the victim yet a boy who a court judges has been groomed by adults to plan a terrorist attack is considered the criminal.

    Are they not either both victims of grooming which means that both children's crimes as a direct result of that grooming are ignored or they have both commuted a criminal act regardless of the fact they did it as a result of grooming and thus should both be charged with their offences?
     
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    Here's another

    Everyone has been "groomed" either by malicious intent or by just being with the wrong people in our formative years, so in a sense we're all victims. Conversely, we must all have some responsibility for our own actions and are therefore guilty. It all depends on the degree and intention of the "grooming".

    This is why we have courts and judges to make such judgments.
     

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