What he’s allegedly done sounds horrific, but I’m a bit uncomfortable with Harrods (and de facto the current owners who are clearly horrified) being the ‘target’ as a corporate entity. Depends on the extent to which it was aided/abetted I guess.
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[Football] Mohammed 'Al' Fayed
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….and told ‘we know where you live, we know where your family live’………
I guess it’s a lot tougher for stories to gain traction when the accused is still alive to litigate the accusers into financial oblivion. A sad state of affairs but, as always, money talks.
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
Can someone change the thread title as nobody wants him to RIP.
‘Rot in Hell’ should do it.
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Would you have gone back to a place of work if you’d been raped? I get not saying anything but I don’t get why you’d ever go back/not quit. Some of these women were there for bloody years!
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You will withdraw your comparison to TB though I hope
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I can’t answer that because I’ve never been in that situation but like the vast majority of women, I have been sexually assaulted in the past. In most places of work, you learned to shut up, and just get on with it, because it happened in most places.
Add in threats of knowing where your family lived, influence with other rich men, loss of reputation, I can empathise with those women who stayed.
A sexual offender’s most often used phrase - nobody will believe you.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I’ll add in the testimony from the 16 year old girl, whose phone contained all the messages from Fayed, handed it to the Met police for evidence.
It was returned to her wiped clean.
Knowing, now, the Met police record of rape, and sexual assaults, coupled with accusations against a rich influential man, what chance did a young girl have of any justice?
It was returned to her wiped clean.
Knowing, now, the Met police record of rape, and sexual assaults, coupled with accusations against a rich influential man, what chance did a young girl have of any justice?
aolstudios
Well-known member
Guy leading this indicated his distain for Harrods statement yesterday & strongly indicated collusion & that they were going after others
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments and sympathise completely. However is it true that the vast majority of women are sexually assaulted?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Yes.
It might be a pat on the bum, or getting your skirt lifted (hence why many girls wear trousers now) ranging to more obvious groping etc, but it has happened to the vast majority of women.
And laughed off as a ‘joke’.
I’m no feminist but times have changed and women shouldn’t have to keep quiet and just accept it.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
Well-known member
How is anyone meant to answer that?
People did go back there to work so clearly it's not as simple as you're making out.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Well I wouldn't dismiss it. Some of those behaviours have happened to me from women and they made me feel uncomfortable. Except by invitation, a person's body is theirs and theirs only. It is good to understand what amounts to an assault. Thanks.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
You had the right to report them too, but most men wouldn’t.
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I wonder how many of them did though, I struggle to think that they all did
Why would anyone carry on working for years after being raped or assaulted by the boss? Be as sarcastic as you like but I genuinely don’t understand why they would.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
To be honest, on one occasion I almost did. It was at a former workplace. I went away and it kept running through my mind. Now, many years after I think I should have confronted the person and told her it was not okay and left it at that. It was relatively minor but still way over something a decent minded person would do.
aolstudios
Well-known member
Idiot