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The Sun (England)
March 13, 2007 Tuesday
SECTION: OPINION; SUN WOMAN
A supposedly sane woman wanting to marry a self-confessed paedo cabbie
BYLINE: Anila Baig
I'M sorry, I know love can be blind, but does it have to be deaf, dumb and have a very low IQ too?
What other reason could there be for a supposedly sane woman wanting to marry a self-confessed paedophile -especially, and this bit I really don't get, if she has children herself?
Sarah Wagstaff, from Bridgend, South Wales, has said "I do" to a man convicted of abusing two little girls aged seven and ten in a park.
As a mother, wouldn't your first and only instinct be to get as far away from this man as possible, not set up home with him?
I know men are in short supply and the Bridget Jones generation is always moaning about the lack of suitable marriage material but a paedophile is not suitable for anything -except hanging, in my opinion.
But poor deluded Sarah says she loves 36-year-old taxi driver Kelvin Wagstaff who, according to yesterday's paper, indecently assaulted a ten-year-old girl and performed a sex act in the presence of a child.
It isn't clear if Sarah's three kids are his but I doubt that that would make a difference. I'd want to give someone like that a very wide berth, not to give birth with him.
But newlywed Sarah says that she will stand by him. "I love him, he needs help."
That's what you say to someone who is still watching Lost, not someone with a penchant for little kids. In this case you pick up the kids and run. Far away.
Bonkers
But maybe Wagstaff has some special charm. As well as wrapping Sarah round his little finger and getting her to agree to marry him, he has even managed to get the courts to give him a wedding present -his normal night-time curfew was waived and he was allowed a night in a hotel.
This is bonkers. How many other prisoners are going to be let out on special occasions? What is the point of punishment if it is waived at the first available opportunity? Were the two abused little girls given any special treatment after the ordeal they suffered?
A few might say Sarah is being noble, that this is really someone standing by her man through thick and thin but frankly I think she is just being thick. She is being selfish and should put her children first.
Paedophiles may well be tortured by their actions and despise themselves for what they do, but that doesn't mean we have to go around feeling sorry for them. The children come first, simple as that. They should be able to play in a park without fear of a man coming up to them and violating them.
There are too many men in positions of responsibility getting away with hurting and abusing youngsters and I don't know what the answer is.
Tougher sentences, more controls on the internet, chemical castration? But definitely not a kiss on the wrist and the promise of "I do".
I, for one, definitely don't.
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