Damn, once was going to be a England star, now this Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson has pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child and one charge of grooming.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35541528
Who else has been a promising international player, only to ruin it all?
He's been sacked by Sunderland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35546894
Wonder much time he'll do?
It will be interesting to see what happens when somebody else tries to sign him. Is a bit of grooming worse than a rape? Probably not. But at the same time it's probably more likely to generate OUTRAGE.
Grooming might just be a couple of texts, though. Doesn't he claim that he thought she was of age?
I don't know. You see grooming and you think long-game noncing. If he's just a wally then being a laughing stock is probably his biggest problem.
Any pictures of the girl?
Inb4magic
If he's pleaded guilty then there's more to it than a mistaken couple of texts anyway.Originally Posted by Lewis
I have no idea what the legal definition of grooming is. A quick google throws this up:
Seems pretty vague to me.Child grooming is befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, and sometimes the family, to lower the child's inhibitions for child sexual abuse.
Even by that definition he could have groomed someone he believed was of age. Still pretty dodgy though the creepy fucker.
I don't know about previous claims, but he's admitted he knew she was underage.
Means we'll only lose 1-0 in the derby now.
If he was going to plead guilty, why have Sunderland been allowing him to play for all this time?
Good to see SvN, defender of footballing sex miscreants everywhere, back in work though.
Fucking prime meat he has and the cunt goes grooming a kid! Throw away the keys.
Meat? You charmer.
Don't usually laugh along with Twitter BANTZ, but I thought this one was alright:
Bit crass there Bam.
I'm not trying to chat her up on here.
Presumably because we're shit, and he's quite good.
I'm not sure how asking questions about the case equals defending him. If he's admitted he knew, then he deserves to go down. I asked if that was the case.
Rovers are still selecting Adam Walker despite being charged with grooming two fourteen year olds (having dropped him for ten minutes in July when he first got arrested), but it's rugby so nobody cares.
Craig Thomson was the one that got me. Weren't the lasses he was wapping it out online to about 12/13?
He was in court again in January for breaching sex offender rules by going to Spain without telling the authorities. It put the kibosh on a move back to pro football with Livi after 2 years of junior league football.
Player of genuine quality when he went away too - he looked like he'd make the move to the Premiership.
My Paint drawing was a key piece of evidence.
*league. If it was union and he played for someone like Harlequins there would be a six page spread about it in the Telegraph every day.
Manu Tuilagi and those female coppers got relatively little coverage, and what press it did get was more about him missing the World Cup than being a cunt.
So he found this bairn in a pub and thought, "Well, the wife and kid's at home. I'll send you a few texts that imply we're in a relationship. Nowt'll come of that..."
Stupid, stupid sod.
Has his defence lawyer put together a case for her manipulating, and in turn, raping him? No? Didn't think so. Another victory for the feminazis.
"My client is an alcoholic."
Done.
"My client has a history of making terrible life choices, your honour. For example, in August 2012 he signed for Sunderland".
haha that made me laugh.
I saw the sacking coming.
Once you admit you have done something like that, any company will be sacking you.
True that
I think one was eleven and the other was fourteen.
The thing that really fucked me up about his case was that the younger of the girls was a family friend who he'd known since she was a toddler. He should have been imprisoned. Did they extend his stay on the sex offender's register when he fucked up the second time?
From what I've been reading Sunderland had expected him to be pleading not guilty?
Filthy nonce. Hope he gets his legs broken in prison so he can never play football again. P
Therein lies a problem. It's been touched on on this forum before but there seems to be no official help for such people. Instead we wait for them to get caught, villify them and then dispose so we don't have to deal with it.
Productive!
And well deserved is that course of action too.
He's hardly a pedo that wants to fuck children and couldn't contain it anymore. He's just an idiot that fucked a girl who was one year underage. Totally different kettle of fish to the genuine pedos that do need help.
What a fucking idiot. Footballers really are thick.The jury was read a series of messages between the pair in which he arranged to meet her so he could sign a football shirt.
In them, the girl made it clear she was a Year 10 student and one month past her 15th birthday, saying everyone thought she looked older.
An idiot is someone of low intelligence. Johnson appears much seedier in his exchages. Ched Evans shagged a drunk in what was a spur of the moment decision, this guy drives to actually meet an underage lass. Very iffy.
Johnson asked the girl: “Are you in the last year of school?"
She replied: “Year 10. Will you still send me a signed shirt?”
Johnson then arranged to meet the girl to give her a signed Sunderland shirt, jurors heard, and asked as the conversation went on: “Where do you go out?”
She replied: “I’m not old enough to go out.”
He said: “Yeah but you look old enough. When you 16?”
She answered: “Everyone says that. November.”"
Within hours of the alleged sexual encounter, Johnson is said to have sent a message to the girl saying: “Wasn’t bad was it? Lol”. She replied: “No haha”. He continued: “Haha think we need to go in the back next time lol”. She said: “Haha yeah”.
The court heard that Johnson said he felt the meeting had been “worth it”, adding: “It was class. Just wanted to get ya jeans off lol ... Next time defo. I will last 10 seconds though lol.”
Wrong.
It's the grooming part which is horrid, if he met a 15 year old in a club and slept with her thinking she was of age it's not too bad, just a stupid mistake. Grooming though, he's a wrong'un.
That message conversation reads like it's right out of Smiffy's phone.
"...av u sin jurasick parc lol"
I think you'd be hard pressed to find any text speak on my mobile phone beyond "tbh".
He's had a shocker really and he should probably get the book thrown at him.
Aye. When the initial story came out you wondered whether he'd just been a bit of a div, but by the look of it that chant of his is well justified.
It must be a City thing.
EDIT:
Well that's his career over, fucking pleb, should get the book thrown at him now.
Test.
Shit the bed it's worse than you'd think.
https://twitter.com/JoshHalliday
Is this what constitutes journalism now? Live tweeting from a courtroom/
Fucking hellAJ's girlfriend sent him pic of their baby. AJ: "She looks class" – 30 seconds after he text girl to say "I will last 10 seconds tho lol"
Is he on about fucking his own baby there? Ian Watkins v2.
What's wrong with live tweeting from a courtroom you mong?Is this what constitutes journalism now? Live tweeting from a courtroom
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