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ITV and Sky have both named the DJ.

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Being of a certain age I remember in the early days of TOTP you could tell by his behaviour that something was not quite right when there were young girls around him.

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Yeh, it's Dave Lee Travis.

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Drs. Are routinely dishin out condoms to 12&13 year olds and you lot are goin on about dj paedos!!!!dont make me larfffffff

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Boys or girls?

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what have doctors giving out contraception got to do with paedophiles?

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It seems Sally Bercow is in the McAlpine firing line:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/40...hild-abuse.htm

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The Beeb have offered to pay lord McAlpine a shed load of our money for us ,nice of them

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20348978

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Yes, probably to counteract the rise in teen pregnancy, which is a seperate subject to paedophilia.

There is a general acceptance that teenagers will have sex with each other. This may or may not be morally (or even legally correct) but it is a natural part of teenagers experimenting so it will happen. As such, some doctors at least try and minimise the consequences. There are limits to this, however. A 16 year old having sex with a 14 year old would be morally dubious but a lot more acceptable than a 16 year old having sex with a nine year old.

An adult having sex with a non-legal teenager is not the same thing at all. We, as adults, have a duty to protect teenagers, not take advantage of them.

The fact is that those teenagers where in a position where the management and staff of the organisation should have protected them from abuse. Something which they failed to do, and it seems at least one DJ and one pop star did not fail to take advantage of that fact.

If you still don't think it's a bad thing that happened, I suggest you talk to any victim of sexual abuse (whether they were adult or child at the time of the offence). You'll find that the experience affects them for the rest of their lives. For the rest of their lives, they will have trouble in relationships, trouble trusting other people. They may also be prone to bouts of depression (sometimes leading to them being sectioned or killing themselves), and may become abusers themselves.

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Maybe this will be the wake up call that a lot of twitters and facebookers need .When the letters start arriving they may realise that you can't say what you want and get away with it

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No, no, no! I'm sure it'll be just as painful for them just as dishing out twice as much as was due to the former DG... :rolleyes:

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Yes, I'd noticed the Twitter page of a certain former CF member and aspiring world leader (but in no way an extremist) has gone very quiet... :D

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:D

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Won't his pension entitlement mostly be based on his employment at the BBC before becoming DG? Why should he forgo that?

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What he deserves and what he'll get are two different things and I think his resignation payment should have been the minimum required under his contract which was, IIRC, 6 months. The rest, as you say, will be based on his previous employment with the BBC but I'm wondering how a man who appeared so out of his depth when it really mattered ever rose through the ranks to DG in the first place. :confused:

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I think a lot of people using the net generally (and on Twitter and FB in particular) need reminding that the law still applies to them. If a few people got caught and very publically sued, it might make quite a few trolls think twice.

What would you rather they do? Fight the charge when they themselves have admitted to doing wrong on their own channels? They could end up paying a lot more than they are now.