Rolf Harris

[floo]

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[Sebastian Toe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39960138

Rolf Harris is being released tomorrow, although he is now standing trial on other sexual abuse charges.

But did he didgeridoo it?

[ippy]

But did he didgeridoo it?

No doubt their'll be a load of waffle, that might return to him unless he ab some original thoughts.

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[Aruntraveller]

Can you see what it is yet?

[ad_orientem]

When it came to light that he was a pervert it kind of broke my heart a little bit. Rolf Harris was part of my childhood. I can never view anything he ever did in the same light again.

[Aruntraveller]

I think the evil piece of scum should be chopped up into little pieces and fed to dogs.

Don't allow him a funeral either. Worthless pervert.

[Nearly Sane]

Now that would be needlessly cruel to dogs it might contaminate them, rodents yes!

first you hate dogs, then foxes now rodents.

[Nearly Sane]

For crying out loud where did I say I HATE dogs and foxes, I don't?  We have had many dogs in our time and they were all treated well, just not as surrogate humans.  I am phobic about rats and mice though, always have been.

Hyperbole is just a word to you, isn't it?

[Nearly Sane]

Many of your statements appear to be exaggerated as well as pedantic.

Billions of your posts appear to be fallacies.

[jeremyp]

WOW Billions?

Woosh!

[Harrowby Hall]

Billions of your posts appear to be fallacies.

NS. If I were you, I would return "Arithmetic Made Simple" by Diane Abbott to the library.

[jeremyp]

NS. If I were you, I would return "Arithmetic Made Simple" by Diane Abbott to the library.

Wooosh!

[Nearly Sane]

Wooosh!

you tell people things a trillion times but do they listen?

[Robbie]

I think the evil piece of scum should be chopped up into little pieces and fed to dogs.

Don't allow him a funeral either. Worthless pervert.

Or even a burial or cremation!

(quote author=floo)Now that would be needlessly cruel to dogs it might contaminate them, rodents yes!
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Dogs & rodents would turn veggie if an attempt was made to feed him to them, they'd like him too much.
Maybe a sea burial in shark infested waters.  Sharks wouldn't care& never heard of Animal Hospital.

(Like floo and Ad-Orient. I was shocked by the first revealations about Harris & hoped there'd been a mistake.)

[Robbie]

Yes his victims are still traumatised after all these years,well you would be! dreadful business.
As well as the victims i feel desperately sorry for his elderly wife and his daughter, it must have been an awful shock. Last i heard his daughter believed he was innocent, poor woman. They are victims too.

[floo]

Although I was shocked when Harris was charged with sexual abuse, I remembered an interview given by him a good number of years ago when he recalled how he liked being in bed naked with his wife and daughter, Bindi, when she was a little girl. I did think that was weird, at the time.

In the 80s I contacted social services when two little girls of 8 and 6 friends of our younger daughters confided in me that they didn't like their Daddy, who had custody of them, getting into bed with them at night. They didn't say he had abused them, but if they were uncomfortable with what he was doing, obviously something was wrong. The upshot was they were immediately removed from his care and went to live with their mother and her new spouse.

[Robbie]

Although I was shocked when Harris was charged with sexual abuse, I remembered an interview given by him a good number of years ago when he recalled how he liked being in bed naked with his wife and daughter, Bindi, when she was a little girl. I did think that was weird, at the time.

That does sound weird but he may have been asked questions that led him to say that & for all we know his little girl may have climbed into bed with mum& dad half naked on occasions, things like that happen all the time.From reading about him there's never been any suggestion of abuse towards his child.
There's enough without that!

[floo]

That does sound weird but he may have been asked questions that led him to say that & for all we know his little girl may have climbed into bed with mum& dad half naked on occasions, things like that happen all the time.From reading about him there's never been any suggestion of abuse towards his child.
There's enough without that!

If I remember correctly it was reported when Harris admitted to having had sex with her friend, Bindi destroyed some of his artwork.

[jeremyp]

Yes his victims are still traumatised after all these years

Is that speculation or do you know this for a fact?

If you have personal knowledge you probably shouldn't be posting it here.

[Robbie]

I don't know victims of Rolf Harris but If they were not traumatised they wouldn't have brought charges against him. It takes courage to do that having to relive deliberate abuse, a long ordeal. It's not the same as someone accidentally knocking you over and injuring you but don't take my word for it.

[floo]

I don't know victims of Rolf Harris but If they were not traumatised they wouldn't have brought charges against him. It takes courage to do that having to relive deliberate abuse, a long ordeal. It's not the same as someone accidentally knocking you over and injuring you but don't take my word for it.

I agree.

[jeremyp]

I don't know victims of Rolf Harris but If they were not traumatised they wouldn't have brought charges against him.

I'm sure they were traumatised by the events and Harris deservedly went to prison, but you claimed they are still traumatised which may be true but is not necessarily true.

It takes courage to do that having to relive deliberate abuse,

Yes it does but you don't need to be traumatised to have courage.

[Rhiannon]

I agree, Jeremy. People can and do recover from the trauma of abuse.

[Robbie]

Thinking about it,yes people do recover from abuse in time, especially if they are able to offload & i'd think seeing someone take responsibility as in the case of Rolf Harris- not that he had much choice in the end but still he has had to face up and even apologised - is healing.

[SweetPea]

Thinking about it,yes people do recover from abuse in time, especially if they are able to offload & i'd think seeing someone take responsibility as in the case of Rolf Harris- not that he had much choice in the end but still he has had to face up and even apologised - is healing.

Is that right? I thought Rolf Harris was still denying all the charges. So how can he have faced-up to what he has done and apologised? Only what I heard yesterday on the news, Robinson.... I haven't really been following the case.