A controversial case and a controversial sentence and you have to agree with some of the comments that have been made by Katie Hopkins (not one of my favourite people usually)
I am very interested in what Ngb makes of the sentencing
KATIE HOPKINS: Put away the rope, Adam Johnson broke the law – with a girl who knew EXACTLY what she was doing - but he’s not a paedophile and he doesn’t deserve prison and a Twitter lynching
Eight hundred and thirty-four Whatsapp messages. That's the sum of it: 834 messages, sent between Adam Johnson and a teenage fan so besotted by a footballer she stood waiting for him on his birthday with a cake.
When she finally got to meet him in his car, she even recorded their sad fumblings in the dark, so she could prove to her mates she had only gone and done it — only snagged herself a footballer, a footballer who made it quite clear the next time they met he would be looking to get her jeans off and do much more then kiss.
She looked way older than 15 and acted way older than 15, something 'everyone told her' all the time.
But now, thanks to a bit of healthy overdramatising of the affair and the baying mob on Twitter, she is the victim.
Instead of being a hormonal teen stalking someone famous for attention, desperate for a chance to have something her friends do not, she's a tiny little child so prepubescent and naive that he's the ‘paedo’ and she's the one who has been groomed.
And the Twitter mob and the press is buying her story. Inexplicably, they love the idea she is just an innocent child behind a screen, sat there in a training bra and ankle socks, looking for nothing more than a signed shirt and a season ticket to Sunderland.
They gather with their stones, waiting to throw them at the 'dirty nonce', reinforcing each other's daft logic, goading each other to give him a beating, kick him whilst he's down, watch him lose everything they never had but always wanted.
Look around at these people. They are no different to the nutters of ISIS gathering to watch gay men thrown from buildings. ‘Civilised’ society condoning human barbarity only because the law is on its side — no matter if the law is an arse.
'He's guilty because he said he did it.' So many people naively believing that how you plead has any relevance to what actually happened.
Yes, the girl in this case was 15. But can we truly define the age of sexual consent by something so arbitrary as a number?
A third of all 14 to 16 year olds are sexually active. You might argue that most of this activity won't be with grown men. But in in Italy and Germany, where the age of consent is 14, they clearly define our young persons’ march into adulthood a lot more progressively then we do here in the UK.
We have to look at the individual. Was she physically, emotionally, psychologically aware of what she or he was doing?
She was.
She waited to meet him, willingly handed over her number, recorded their meetings to brag to mates, and was perfectly aware of what he wanted when she clambered into his car.
Not only that, but she was the one going back for more.
Yes Adam Johnson, knew how old she was.
Yes, he is a cheating, selfish, arrogant, dick-driven, dim-witted specimen who clearly wasn’t worthy of his God-given talent or his loyal girlfriend and the daughter she bore him.
But if all that was a crime we would have to lock up half the young (and not-so-young) men in Britain.
The law is a game of strategy and tactics. Adam Johnson was going to plead innocent, switched tactics, and got it wrong.
It's the same reason people settle out of court. Not because they are guilty, but because it is financially prudent when faced with the shocking costs of a trial in court.
I have never loved Lord Sugar more than when he stood up to the blonde dimwit Stella English, refusing to pay her off on principle, and won.
'Well you wouldn't like it if it was your daughter getting her hymen stretched,' screeched a creepy member of the mob.
You are right again. But then, I wouldn't have too much sympathy for my daughter, either. If you play with fire, you get your fingers burned, and if you promise a bloke he can do more, he'll take your fifty shades of grey and make it pretty damn black and white.
I'd be wanting to know why my daughter was schlepping round after some lame-brain footballer who probably can't even read when she should be better than that.
The law is a game of strategy and tactics. Adam Johnson was going to plead innocent, switched tactics, and got it wrong.
It's the same reason people settle out of court. Not because they are guilty, but because it is financially prudent when faced with the shocking costs of a trial in court.
I have never loved Lord Sugar more than when he stood up to the blonde dimwit Stella English, refusing to pay her off on principle, and won.
'Well you wouldn't like it if it was your daughter getting her hymen stretched,' screeched a creepy member of the mob.
You are right again. But then, I wouldn't have too much sympathy for my daughter, either. If you play with fire, you get your fingers burned, and if you promise a bloke he can do more, he'll take your fifty shades of grey and make it pretty damn black and white.
I'd be wanting to know why my daughter was schlepping round after some lame-brain footballer who probably can't even read when she should be better than that.
