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Originally Posted by cDnStealth
The only thing I have to ask is why are these two women getting off so easy in comparison? I can't believe they'd do that to their own children. Absolutely disgusting.
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From the article that devo quoted:
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Watkins's barrister claimed that Woman A and Woman B were equally to blame for the abuse that was carried out.
But Woman A's barrister, Jonathan Fuller QC, said his client was an impressionable 17-year-old when she met Watkins for the first time.
"She was corrupted by him," said Fuller. "He darkened her world with drugs and even injected her with heroin. She sacrificed her own moral compass so she could sustain a relationship with a man she was obsessed with.
"She was a girl doing her A-levels. He was in the limelight and a rock star. She was vulnerable and exploited."
Christine Laing QC, for Woman B, said her client was a "very immature young woman" suffering from an undiagnosed personality disorder and postnatal depression when she first spoke to Watkins. Laing told the court how Watkins had told Woman B: "You and your daughter now belong to me."
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I am not sure that I buy any of that garbage, or at least not to the extent that I feel it would justify leniency given their involvement in this. At the very least, I think they at least got Watkin's sentence right.