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Well, tonight we had the first visit by two plods.
We understand they have to acknowledge only the guilty plea bargain and sentence handed down although by the time they left, they were offering hub advice on possible avenues of hope and agreed the charges had been duplicitous.
However there was a rather annoying side to the visit. There was a strong undercurrent of 'if it was to get into the papers who knows what would happen, every sex offender is considered a child abuser by the public'. Well, the only way is if they leaked it so this is their big stick as they told hub he could no longer work in our small business because we sell our goods in full public view and it means we have to be friendly which is the kind of devious behaviour an S.O. engages in. He can't have any job that means he is entering a person's home but he wouldn't anyway for his own protection.
If he carries out any work they don't approve of, even if it doesn't require a crb check or whatever it is now called, they would have to alert anyone they think could be at risk. The most telling statement was that even when the 5 years are up, it could still leak to the paper and 'imagine if our local paper ran the story!'
Before the FA by ex employee his work took him into hundreds of homes, elderly, single, families, never the slightest hint of wrongdoing.
They looked in every drawer and cupboard of every room and next week want to examine his PC as it hasn't been examined before. Hub isn't worried but this is obviously how it is going to be.
They can sing before they look at mine because only I use it and there is nothing amiss, I just feel anarchy coming on.
Despite there being no suggestion of assaulting a minor, we have to tell them if one is in our house for 12 hours or more. What a stupid arbitrary time span! Who does that protect? If we spend 7 nights at one place over a year we have to register that address or if we go away for a week we have to let them know.
Next week when they come back, they have asked if they can look at our evidence to 'learn and see if they can help us' but my instincts tell me there is no altruistic motive for this. On the other hand, what could they gain from seeing it? Maybe my hackles were just up from the thinly veiled threats.
Hub has told them he will comply but deny and he is not in denial as it never happened. A few times they mentioned things in a friendly way from FAs statement but hub kept saying, yes I would agree if it had happened but it didn't.
I'll be voting to stay in the EU solely because of their view of the SOR and it looks like we may eventually move to mainland Europe anyway. It seems it is the only way we will ever have peace.
We understand they have to acknowledge only the guilty plea bargain and sentence handed down although by the time they left, they were offering hub advice on possible avenues of hope and agreed the charges had been duplicitous.
However there was a rather annoying side to the visit. There was a strong undercurrent of 'if it was to get into the papers who knows what would happen, every sex offender is considered a child abuser by the public'. Well, the only way is if they leaked it so this is their big stick as they told hub he could no longer work in our small business because we sell our goods in full public view and it means we have to be friendly which is the kind of devious behaviour an S.O. engages in. He can't have any job that means he is entering a person's home but he wouldn't anyway for his own protection.
If he carries out any work they don't approve of, even if it doesn't require a crb check or whatever it is now called, they would have to alert anyone they think could be at risk. The most telling statement was that even when the 5 years are up, it could still leak to the paper and 'imagine if our local paper ran the story!'
Before the FA by ex employee his work took him into hundreds of homes, elderly, single, families, never the slightest hint of wrongdoing.
They looked in every drawer and cupboard of every room and next week want to examine his PC as it hasn't been examined before. Hub isn't worried but this is obviously how it is going to be.
They can sing before they look at mine because only I use it and there is nothing amiss, I just feel anarchy coming on.
Despite there being no suggestion of assaulting a minor, we have to tell them if one is in our house for 12 hours or more. What a stupid arbitrary time span! Who does that protect? If we spend 7 nights at one place over a year we have to register that address or if we go away for a week we have to let them know.
Next week when they come back, they have asked if they can look at our evidence to 'learn and see if they can help us' but my instincts tell me there is no altruistic motive for this. On the other hand, what could they gain from seeing it? Maybe my hackles were just up from the thinly veiled threats.
Hub has told them he will comply but deny and he is not in denial as it never happened. A few times they mentioned things in a friendly way from FAs statement but hub kept saying, yes I would agree if it had happened but it didn't.
I'll be voting to stay in the EU solely because of their view of the SOR and it looks like we may eventually move to mainland Europe anyway. It seems it is the only way we will ever have peace.
) in future they'll only do the once a year visit(?) and it will just be a matter of keeping up with the paperwork regarding notifications.
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