Rolf has been found guilty

[Trevor 57]

of 12 charges of sex offences against women and girls - what a scumbag

[Yellow_Festiva]

It's filthy mongrels like this that make parents have concerns and whisper behind hands to other when I walk into a kindy class to teach....

I would like to remain a member of this site so I'll leave it at that...

[JC]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

It's filthy mongrels like this that make parents have concerns and whisper behind hands to other when I walk into a kindy class to teach....

I would like to remain a member of this site so I'll leave it at that...

It must suck to look like Rolfe Harris.....

On a serious note - I hope they put him away for the rest of his "it takes two to tango" life......

[DJR-351]

Apparently Rolf was voted as one of Australia's 100 most trusted people in a recent poll published by Readers Digest Australia......

[2011G6E]

If he did it, fine, lock the scum up.

But does anyone else find it slightly worrying that a man can be locked up so easily forty years later for something over which there is literally no physical or scientific evidence, merely on the claims of someone else over what they allege happened...?
Victims say they wait thirty or forty years for various reasons...but it does make a lot of people kind of doubt all the details and whether some are just jumping on the bandwagon for a bit of publicity...

[Peter B - CV8]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

If he did it, fine, lock the scum up.

But does anyone else find it slightly worrying that a man can be locked up so easily forty years later for something over which there is literally no physical or scientific evidence, merely on the claims of someone else over what they allege happened...?
Victims say they wait thirty or forty years for various reasons...but it does make a lot of people kind of doubt all the details and whether some are just jumping on the bandwagon for a bit of publicity...

I think it's more the fact that people are now able to communicate instantly around the world & realise that "they aren't the only victim". Before the interweb came into use - you were pretty much on your own...

[Focusfan]

Talk about scum bags, on the news today after saying that law suits will soon follow there is suddenly a lot more women coming out of the wood
work saying they were also assaulted. HA I think a lot want to get on the band wagon now to get some of his millions without doing the hard yard
court sessions that some went through. get rid of them I say. If they did not have the guts to go to court like the others then too late get lost.
I call them scum bags as well.

[zilo]

A child can be someone who is 17 years 354 days old.

(That's 18 -1 day old)

just saying.....that's all.

[BPXR6T]

Originally Posted by zilo

A child can be someone who is 17 years 354 days old.

(That's 18 -1 day old)

just saying.....that's all.

What are you getting at? One of the kids he molested was as young as seven. There is no grey area here.

[geckoGT]

Originally Posted by zilo

A child can be someone who is 17 years 354 days old.

(That's 18 -1 day old)

just saying.....that's all.

For a start there are 365 days in a year (366 on a leap year), second the age of consent is 16 and not 18.

[Lotte]

Originally Posted by geckoGT

For a start there are 365 days in a year (366 on a leap year), second the age of consent is 16 and not 18.

Me thinks you need to learn consent laws (remembering each location will have their own laws to abide by).

On consent: It's only 16 in all states other than Tasmania and SA. It's 17 in those states. Additionally, in victoria 12-15 year olds can have sex as long as their partner is not under 12 and there is no more than 2 years difference.
At 16 you're covered, unless the other person is in a care or supervisory role. This has changed. A few years ago having sex with a 16 year old was fine as long as you weren't over 21, or under 14 (see 12-15 year old ruling).

Let's keep in mind though, Rolf's youngest victim was seven or eight

[geckoGT]

Originally Posted by Lotte

Me thinks you need to learn consent laws (remembering each location will have their own laws to abide by).

On consent: It's only 16 in all states other than Tasmania and SA. It's 17 in those states. Additionally, in victoria 12-15 year olds can have sex as long as their partner is not under 12 and there is no more than 2 years difference.
At 16 you're covered, unless the other person is in a care or supervisory role. This has changed. A few years ago having sex with a 16 year old was fine as long as you weren't over 21, or under 14 (see 12-15 year old ruling).

Let's keep in mind though, Rolf's youngest victim was seven or eight

Thanks for that, the offences occurred in the UK where the age of consent is 16.

[cheap]

Rolf's sentence is now under review as being unduly lenient.

He did not show a nanosecond of remorse, why then should the justice system.

I think this payback from the establishment (subtle payback from from the highest levels). We've all been duped by Rolf, he is being expunged from the history books so to speak, he is likely to rot away in prison.

Many more scumbags on the list, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree and there is RC happening here in Australia. Hopefully our kids wont face these risks and others who suffered will have some closure.

[zilo]

Originally Posted by geckoGT

For a start there are 365 days in a year (366 on a leap year), second the age of consent is 16 and not 18.

Troll much?

[XW-BAXR6T]

May that scumbag rot in jail...

[cheap]

If you rewind nearly 2 years ago when news of a prominent Australian entertainer... The mainstream media went into lock down, refused to name Rolf, even though the pre-trial judge did not issue a suppression order. It was social media which named him, I still wonder why the media went silent?

His many awards and orders will be stripped, his family shamed forever.

Being rich, famous, a convicted pedophile and in the big house is not a good combination. He'd be regretting making Jake the Peg !

[Trevor 57]

a mate of mine in England just told me that the Police are investigating more accusations against him, he is an animal

[290GTP]

Throw the wobble-board at him. Bloody rockspiders.

[cheap]

Actual subtitles from one of his show...

[BradEL]

Originally Posted by cheap

image

Actual subtitles from one of his show...

That's so pedo!

[ute83]

Originally Posted by 290GTP

Throw the wobble-board at him. Bloody rockspiders.

Thanks. Very funny.

[tut0r]

Its proof that no matter how rich, famous or how 'posh' you are, you can still be a low life. Makes me sick to that someone in such a position of power abuses it even more so.

Always hear the age old story even some of the worst murderers and killers have a mutual hate for paedophiles and they end up getting what is deserved in jail!

[vbvbvb088]

This brings to me an interesting point. For years I have always liked a (non Rolf) music artist. The other week in chatting with my sister she mentioned he was a an alco and a wife beater. I was stunned as direct opposite of public persona.

Artist I wont name as as the dead can't defend themselves.

Now being an alco almost goes hand in hand with artistry / creativity so thats ok. Wife beating on the other hand....

So I don't feel bad about liking his music in the past but moving forward I don't know what I think or even what should I think?....

Matt

[Bushbasher]

If he gets more than a couple of years, (which he blooooody will should), I'll lay odds he tops himself before or just after he goes to jail.

[mik]

He always came across as a fine upstanding citizen in his earlier days via the media....... didle lidle lidle lum !

[buggerlugs]

Originally Posted by mik

He always came across as a fine upstanding citizen in his earlier days via the media....... didle lidle lidle lum !

So did a lot of Catholic Priests..............

[ltd]

Originally Posted by buggerlugs

So did a lot of Catholic Priests..............

Just a point of information as to the catholic priests allegedly being the worst offenders in the world - it couldn't be further from the truth.

Of all vocations priests rank amongst the lowest percentage in the world of sexual offenders - with less than 1 percent being offenders.

Amongst the highest percentile of offenders are judges, police, and the worst are the boy-scouts.
Further, you're 8 times more likely to be offended against as a child by a relative than you are by a priest; a far cry from the images perpetrated by the media. If journalists weren't scared they'd blow the lid off the religion of peace - and the endemic of underage marriages from men to pre-teenagers.

If you haven't been able to figure out why the catholic church has the royal commission into it (in big bold type) and other religions (in small font) then I'll lay it out for you:
John McTiernan advocated the royal commission based on the fact that if he makes Catholicism look bad, then enough stupid people will think lots of Catholics are inherently bad. Why would he do this? Well, his boss the former PM Gillard, was going into an election against a practicing Catholic who was once going to be a priest no less. Coincidence?
Sorry, but the whole thing was politicized from the beginning.
I'm not defending Catholic priests, but the off the cuff remarks of a smear campaign started by a political animal fighting for survival by defamation of a large group of people has really gone on too long.
By all means expose the predators and lock them up, but don't fall for a political campaign started by a hack trying every dirty trick in the book to smear the opponent.

[karj]

Originally Posted by ltd

Just a point of information as to the catholic priests allegedly being the worst offenders in the world - it couldn't be further from the truth.

Of all vocations priests rank amongst the lowest percentage in the world of sexual offenders - with less than 1 percent being offenders.

Amongst the highest percentile of offenders are judges, police, and the worst are the boy-scouts.
Further, you're 8 times more likely to be offended against as a child by a relative than you are by a priest; a far cry from the images perpetrated by the media. If journalists weren't scared they'd blow the lid off the religion of peace - and the endemic of underage marriages from men to pre-teenagers.

If you haven't been able to figure out why the catholic church has the royal commission into it (in big bold type) and other religions (in small font) then I'll lay it out for you:
John McTiernan advocated the royal commission based on the fact that if he makes Catholicism look bad, then enough stupid people will think lots of Catholics are inherently bad. Why would he do this? Well, his boss the former PM Gillard, was going into an election against a practicing Catholic who was once going to be a priest no less. Coincidence?
Sorry, but the whole thing was politicized from the beginning.
I'm not defending Catholic priests, but the off the cuff remarks of a smear campaign started by a political animal fighting for survival by defamation of a large group of people has really gone on too long.
By all means expose the predators and lock them up, but don't fall for a political campaign started by a hack trying every dirty trick in the book to smear the opponent.

The Royal Commission isn't about paedophile priests; it's about institutional responses to child sexual abuses.

I also disagree that this RC was politically motivated, my recollection is that our pollies (both NSW state Liberal & Federal Labor) resisted calls for the RC until the very last moment when it just became too big to ignore and people across Australia were howling for some sort of action.

FWIW, despite being an athiest, I'm not at all antagonistic towards people of religion. I was educated at a Catholic school and I adored the parish priest attached to the school. A kinder and more genuine person you would never meet. However, I am highly critical of the Catholic Church and other organisations for the way they have managed (and continue to manage) cases of child sexual abuse.

[xxx000]

Originally Posted by ltd

Just a point of information as to the catholic priests allegedly being the worst offenders in the world - it couldn't be further from the truth.

Of all vocations priests rank amongst the lowest percentage in the world of sexual offenders - with less than 1 percent being offenders.

Amongst the highest percentile of offenders are judges, police, and the worst are the boy-scouts.
Further, you're 8 times more likely to be offended against as a child by a relative than you are by a priest; a far cry from the images perpetrated by the media. If journalists weren't scared they'd blow the lid off the religion of peace - and the endemic of underage marriages from men to pre-teenagers.

If you haven't been able to figure out why the catholic church has the royal commission into it (in big bold type) and other religions (in small font) then I'll lay it out for you:
John McTiernan advocated the royal commission based on the fact that if he makes Catholicism look bad, then enough stupid people will think lots of Catholics are inherently bad. Why would he do this? Well, his boss the former PM Gillard, was going into an election against a practicing Catholic who was once going to be a priest no less. Coincidence?
Sorry, but the whole thing was politicized from the beginning.
I'm not defending Catholic priests, but the off the cuff remarks of a smear campaign started by a political animal fighting for survival by defamation of a large group of people has really gone on too long.
By all means expose the predators and lock them up, but don't fall for a political campaign started by a hack trying every dirty trick in the book to smear the opponent.

you seem to seriously suggest that there shouldn't have been this Royal Commission ?
would you have preferred a RC into relatives abusing children?

the RC has been swamped with witnesses meaning it may have to run for several years to hear all witnesses and get all information, hardly the almost zero problem you seem to imply

we're talking about an institution that often systematically protected pedophiles and ignored repeated complaints about certain priests and thereby let the abuse continue.
Yes children are most likely to be abused by someone the family knows, but that person has all too often been a family priest. And how many to date have been caught and convicted? Far too few, hence your low % claim which is very flawed as it's based on convictions not crimes that took place but may not have been reported or similar
To make the claim that this RC was set up to damage a political opponent is very, very far fetched.
It in no way 'damages all Catholics' but may help prevent child abuse by priests in the future and perhaps even make the organisation compensate the large number of victims.

[ltd]

What scum. Hope he rots in there and the other prisoners get him.