Gary Glitter wants to eat your children
Tuff_Gong
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Somewhere right now Pete Townshend is glad he won't be the first name on people's lips when somebody mentions old rock dudes that are into child pornography. Didn't anybody tell Gary Glitter you go to *Thailand* for sex with underage girls, not Vietnam??Shamed rocker Glitter on the runHANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese police want to talk to Gary Glitter about reports the shamed British glam rocker was seen with girls as young as 15 at a villa he rented, a government spokesman said on Thursday.The communist southeast Asian nation's official Thanh Nien youth newspaper quoted neighbours in the southern resort town of Vung Tau as saying Glitter -- whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd -- had taken home several girls aged 15 or under.Residents of the picturesque tourist town on the mouth of the Saigon River had also complained about his singing, the paper said.Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung told Reuters police wanted to question the 61-year-old rocker about the allegations, which first surfaced in the British tabloid press."If we have evidence of child sexual violation, very strict legal measures would be applied," Dung said, adding that Glitter had since disappeared.The age of consent in Vietnam is 16 and sex with minors is punishable by up to 12 years in jail.Glitter was sentenced to four months in jail in Britain in 1999 after being found guilty of storing more than 4,000 images of child pornography on the hard drive of his computer.After his release, he left Britain for Cuba and then later turned up in Phnom Penh.Child rights activists managed to get him hounded out of Cambodia twice and have his name put on an entry blacklist, although Glitter filed lawsuits last year fighting the deportation orders.Thanh Nien reported Glitter had been in Vietnam for about a year.
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do they check for that automatically now when you take your machine in for repairs? should they?
Only if your repair shop is run by child molesters.
It's old news that he's a pederast, yes, but the fact that Vietnamese authorities are looking for him now is new. I mean, you'd think somebody would learn but apparently not.
Maybe people are just too lush about that.
Child molesting is no crime like stealing or anything !
Seperated at birth?
Someone make this a graemlin.
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what the fuck treatment do you reccomend man? Its not like hes an alcoholic. Sick fuck needs to get the shit kicked out of him in some cambodian jail.
Exactly.
While I think taking advantage of the obviously naive (amongst other things) is bad, you do realize that the concept of age appropriateness in romantic relationships is entirely based on culture and nothing more. Even in America it was common for a long time to have knocked up 14 year olds running around.
From a personal responsibility standpoint, I think we can all agree that it's bad to bone 12 year olds or whatever simply because they aren't thinking about the repercussions of their actions (as no 12 year old... or even most US-legal 18 year olds would be) whereas a 60 year old weirdass certainly would be aware.
I've just been musing lately though how most laws or cultural rules are really not based on anything solid other than tradition, etc. What's so magic about an 18 year old? If anything they should raise the minimum adult age to like 25 or something. I don't think many people in their early 20s are even responsible enough to really let 60 year old nutcases to have free range with them.
Of course, nobody wants to hear that, either.
ok, so, yeah.