Radio show axed after rape furore

[bobalot]

There's a reason why every single article about it focuses on the rape admission.They've been doing this segment for ages, and yet all of a sudden it's inappropriate and there's a national outcry? Just a coincidence, I suppose?

The rape is being mentioned because it is BIG. What do you expect them to say? "Radio Station asks inappropriate questions" and have "Girl was also raped" in small writing at the end of the article? Every article, news report and radio station discussing this I have read/listened to asks why this interview even takes place.

Straight from the Herald Sun. (Source)

"Regardless of any excuses about lack of advance knowledge that the girl had been raped, there is little doubt the aim was to publicly shame the child," a joint statement said.

"A young girl's sexual experience is not relevant or appropriate for the entertainment of anyone."

The statement described the public outing of the girl as child abuse and said the radio station ignored the legal assumption of child protection.

"Dragging a child onto the media stage to be interrogated with a lie detector about her sexuality is a horrific invasion of her rights," it said.

But again, who put her in this situation? Her mother did. Do the idiot radio hosts share blame? Absolutely, I concede that wholeheartedly. But the girl's mother deserves the lion's share.

No one has said otherwise. She is a fucking idiot.

The police aren't investigating her mother, they're investigating the rape claim - and the involvement of public authorities in a rape case is a red herring to the topic, this is about the public outcry and the (IMO) fucked up apportionment of blame. Where exactly has her behavior been brought up? Every single article I have read has focused on the radio show, with not a word said about the mother's idiocy - as Stark said, it's clearly considered taboo, and it's just fucking bullshit.

You are right, I worded that wrong. The girls mother is being investigated by DOCS (Department of Community Services), not the police.

For fuck's sake, even K-Rudd has gotten in on the act, and did he say a word about the mother? No, he didn't.

He did. All because it was vehement enough for you doesn't change that. It would probably be a good idea to carefully word what you say if you were a politician before the results of the police and DOCS investigation came out.

[Serafina]

You are right, I worded that wrong. The girls mother is being investigated by DOCS (Department of Community Services), not the police.

Which is more appropriate - her actions certainly make her a bad mother, but not a criminal.

[JointStrikeFighter]

As Vympel already said; it's Australia; NOBODY cares about underage sex. Period.

[Pick]

From the sound of it (having spoken to my friend from Brisbane), there were a lot of people who thought this kind of shit was horrid from the get-go, but this particular event finally gave them the ammunition necessary to shut it down for good. As far as I'm concerned, good fucking riddance to bad rubbish.

I do think the mother should be blamed most. Hell, I think she deserves jail time, whether or not there's a law that will get her there. That doesn't mean these assholes deserve to keep their precious inhumane radio show, however.