Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

non prosperous middle class appearance of their gardens ?

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

Defo - id be back there now if i could ;) xxxxx

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

I am sure that some cases get swept under the carpet in rich and poor families, but the cases which end in very serious injury or death, do not.

And I am sure that money does not give an abuser immunity under the law.

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

Who said it did? Seriously, sometimes I'm sure people just post on here to start a fight.

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

Of course you are trying to be smart, but it is a well known fact that quite often a dirty house and appearance goes with other types of neglect.

Neglect as to where the children go and who with.

A mother who allows her children to live in filth, quite often is not so vigilant on who they associate with.

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

Me Me - i think you misunderstand what i was on about - i was trying to explain another persons post not my own - of course death doesnt get swept under the carpet and i didnt say that money gives abusers immunity - i said it happens in all societies but people just presume its the lower classes it happens xxx

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

Exactly. Oh that lovely air of respectability...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_...stigation_2008

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

I agree with you on this point - plus sometimes as long as they are not under their feet they dont really give a shit where they are either which is very sad xxxxx

Im also on about ALL classes here xxx

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

You are missing the point - which is that the assumption that the characteristics of poor areas mean that the people who live there are criminals, while the corresponding assumption is that in well-kept, well-to-do areas such crimes do not happen. This leads to attitudes that denigrate the poor unjustly and protect the well-to-do unjustly, and does nothing for the victms in either case.

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

At the end of the day another poor child has been killed - it doesnt matter where she was from or how much money they had/or had not - shes dead - what an utter waste of another young life :( xxx

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

I think that about sums it up.

As a matter of interest whatever happened to the much cherished British belief of innocence until proof of guilt?

All this speculation about abuse is a bit distasteful (I'm struggling to be polite here) given we know nothing and the post mortem isn't even finished yet.

I just hope that when it comes to trial the jury will decide on evidence not on their preheld prejudices.

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

RR i think when it involves kids (or even animals and old people) everyone just loses their heads and wants to lynch them - but good point xxx

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

The case of Tia did live up to all the stereotypes. A Mother who allows her child to live most of the time in the Grandmothers house despite knowing her lover (and the Mothers ex-lover) was a convicted druggie and more! Even to the picture of him stood at the door of that slum with a can in his hand. Now the Mother turns up weeping and wailing....Typical sort of scenario when many get a new partner the kids by a previous Father is discarded and ignored.

Of course abuse is not confined to dysfunctional families but what does it have to do with this thread...except to get into a point scoring contest with the usual culprits:thumbdown:

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

I agree, I said earlier that sadly the hunger for information and the desire to know often feeds the media, who in turn feed us with the information we crave!

Re: Missing girl 'Tia'
 

Good post, and very true about the point scoring.