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NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:49 AM Oct 2015

Schoolboy groomed by teaching assistant says he has been left scarred for life

A schoolboy groomed over Facebook by a teaching assistant has claimed they had sex up to 50 times and he has been left ‘scarred for life’.

Last week the MEN exclusively revealed how teaching assistant Caroline Berriman had avoided jail after coming clean about the relationship with the teenage boy at Abraham Moss Community School in Crumpsall last year.

Berriman, 30, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child - and a further charge of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.

The disgraced teaching assistant, of Manor Close in Chadderton, Oldham, was handed a two-year sentence, suspended for two years at Minshull Street Crown Court, having pleaded guilty to all three charges at an earlier hearing.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/

A two year suspended sentence and community service. Unbelievable.

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Schoolboy groomed by teaching assistant says he has been left scarred for life (Original Post) NaturalHigh Oct 2015 OP
Horrifyingly wrong, but totally believable. demmiblue Oct 2015 #1
When rape victims aren't visibly beaten they often get no justice bettyellen Oct 2015 #2

demmiblue

(36,824 posts)
1. Horrifyingly wrong, but totally believable.
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:04 AM
Oct 2015

MEN need to start speaking up for victim's rights, women (at least on this board) have always found actions like these to be deplorable. How many times have we seen male DU members snicker and scoff at the idea that a teenage boy could be raped by an older woman? How many times have we seen said DUers claim that they would have loved to be in that position at that age?

I agree with you, unbelievable. Things need to change.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
2. When rape victims aren't visibly beaten they often get no justice
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:15 AM
Oct 2015

That's been the way it works for the longest time.

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