A man jailed for fo[u]r years claims he is still a good dad despite offering his son cocaine and trying to get him to have sex with a 26-year-old prostitute.

“Don’t be a p[u]ssy” the man told his son after he organised for two sex workers to visit a hotel in Bromley, Greater London. The young lad, who cannot be named, bravely told his dad “I’m f***ing 13, that’s ridiculous” when he was offered a line of cocaine.

At his sentencing hearing, the man told Croydon Crown Court he is a great father, despite appearing to have some weird and very skewed views on what is good parenting. "I’m a good father,” he insisted, after he pleaded guilty to arranging for a child to engage in sexual activity as well as offering to supply cocaine.

He told the court: "I might not look like it in your eyes. It was only because he was feeling down because he’d broken up with his girlfriend and he said he’d done all that stuff before.

He added: “So the brass sucked his p****. Job done. Whatever.”

Source (archive, as it is the oo-ah-Daily Star)

  • Cris@lemmy.world
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    ಠ_ಠ

    “I’m fucking 13, that’s ridiculous” is a fucking hilarious thing to say to your father when he offers you a line of cocaine.

    Jesus christ, what a ludicrous scenario. I hope the kid turns out alright inspite of his dad being kinda batshit

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukM
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    What is this country coming to that you can pressure your adolescent son into doing cocaine and having sex with a prostitute and be called a bad farther? It’s not trauma, it’s character building!

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      … his father paid a woman to sexually assault him and pressured his son to concede. He’s 13 years old. That’s sexual assault no matter the circumstances. His father is fucking sick and should be in prison.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOP
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        He is:

        The judge sentenced him to four years in prison for arranging a child sex offence.

        The dad will be subject to sex offence notification requirements for life and was given a 10-year SHPO.

        And won’t be allowed unsupervised contact with children for ten years.

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          Out of interest, what does UK law have to say about the sex workers in this case? Where I live age of consent is 16, but I believe it’s a defence to have reasonably believed they were over that age. However that defence can only be used to a certain point. I forget if it’s 14 or 12.

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            Most kids I knew would think you’re gay or something if you bring up the legal ramifications of teacher banging at the lunchtable

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              Yes, teenage boys are notorious for brushing off the harm done by the statutory sexual assault of their peers. But if we’re going to start taking sexual violence against men seriously we have to take sexual violence against men seriously. The boy in the article was well below the age of consent and did not want to engage in the sex acts that his father pushed him to perform. If it was a 13 year old girl it would be nearly universally recognized as horrible (even if her friends thought it was really cool and were envious).

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    You know, I never thought that the kind of storylines in Guy Ritchie movies were realistic but I guess it’s just a British thing.

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    "The dad added that the sex workers were already in a taxi so it was too late to cancel, Ms Benson said. When the two women arrived the dad told them his son was 18 years old.

    The boy was then taken to a separate room where he reluctantly allowed a 26-year-old sex worker to perform a sex act on him, the court heard. In a police statement the boy said he didn’t want to do it and he was left feeling disgusted."

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOP
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      I imagine they have seen their fair share of reluctant grooms on stag dos and, unless he actually told then he was 13, they had been told he was 18. So technically a crime but he CPS presumably felt it was murky enough that a conviction might be tricky. Unless they were convicted and that bastion of news reporting the Daily Star didn’t bother mentioning it because it wasn’t a good story.

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        I get the feeling that if I fucked a a thirteen year old girl that “I thought she was 18” isn’t really going to cut it in court.

        I would think that the identity of the sex workers is unknown and that’s how they’ll be avoiding prosecution.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        You know, I don’t think the reluctant grooms make it better. Maybe I just have high moral standards, but I don’t care if you’re being paid to sexually assault someone, you don’t engage in sexual contact with people against their will. I can buy the claims he’s 18, I developed young and had friends who developed slow so maybe he did sound like a grown ass man or something, but still he clearly didn’t want it