Rolf has been found guilty

[Trevor 57]

of 12 charges of sex offences against women and girls - what a scumbag

[Yellow_Festiva]

It's filthy mongrels like this that make parents have concerns and whisper behind hands to other when I walk into a kindy class to teach....

I would like to remain a member of this site so I'll leave it at that...

[zilo]

A child can be someone who is 17 years 354 days old.

(That's 18 -1 day old)

just saying.....that's all.

[XW-BAXR6T]

May that scumbag rot in jail...

[cheap]

If you rewind nearly 2 years ago when news of a prominent Australian entertainer... The mainstream media went into lock down, refused to name Rolf, even though the pre-trial judge did not issue a suppression order. It was social media which named him, I still wonder why the media went silent?

His many awards and orders will be stripped, his family shamed forever.

Being rich, famous, a convicted pedophile and in the big house is not a good combination. He'd be regretting making Jake the Peg !

[Trevor 57]

a mate of mine in England just told me that the Police are investigating more accusations against him, he is an animal

[290GTP]

Throw the wobble-board at him. Bloody rockspiders.

[cheap]

Actual subtitles from one of his show...

[tut0r]

Its proof that no matter how rich, famous or how 'posh' you are, you can still be a low life. Makes me sick to that someone in such a position of power abuses it even more so.

Always hear the age old story even some of the worst murderers and killers have a mutual hate for paedophiles and they end up getting what is deserved in jail!

[vbvbvb088]

This brings to me an interesting point. For years I have always liked a (non Rolf) music artist. The other week in chatting with my sister she mentioned he was a an alco and a wife beater. I was stunned as direct opposite of public persona.

Artist I wont name as as the dead can't defend themselves.

Now being an alco almost goes hand in hand with artistry / creativity so thats ok. Wife beating on the other hand....

So I don't feel bad about liking his music in the past but moving forward I don't know what I think or even what should I think?....

Matt

[Bushbasher]

If he gets more than a couple of years, (which he blooooody will should), I'll lay odds he tops himself before or just after he goes to jail.

[ute83]

Originally Posted by 290GTP

Throw the wobble-board at him. Bloody rockspiders.

Thanks. Very funny.

[BPXR6T]

Originally Posted by zilo

A child can be someone who is 17 years 354 days old.

(That's 18 -1 day old)

just saying.....that's all.

What are you getting at? One of the kids he molested was as young as seven. There is no grey area here.

[mik]

He always came across as a fine upstanding citizen in his earlier days via the media....... didle lidle lidle lum !

[ltd]

What scum. Hope he rots in there and the other prisoners get him.

[TC200six]

Years ago I would never have imagined he had a dark side to him. At least his dark side has been uncovered and found guilty.

It's unbelievable that he appeared in a child safety video in the 1980s, as someone else mentioned. This is the clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0qejLm1CRQ

[LTDHO]

Where will he do his time?
I wonder if he will get special celeb treatment or will he be bashed?

[iCat]

I was unsure of his guilt or innocence until I read an aussie lady journo's account of being warned to keep her distance from him during an interview. His 'touchy feeliness' was well known in the industry. I wonder how many suspected or really knew what he was like and said nothing? Utter filth.

[duaned]

No more British Paints adverts from that rockspider!

[cheap]

Unbelievable, I've bolded several sections, says a lot about justice and the power of argument V's getting to the truth, evidence excluded because it would be harmful to Rolf's defense - WTF !

http://www.smh.com.au/world/rolf-har...701-zsrjc.html

Rolf Harris guilty: The stories the jury didn't hear, including an alleged grope on live TV

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris is found guilty of 12 charges of indecently assaulting four girls over nearly 20 years from 1968.

Entertainer Rolf Harris allegedly groped a respected British television presenter on live TV – but the jury in his indecent assault trial never got to hear her story.

The woman, "Miss F", was one of several who came forward with claims about being groped or harassed by Harris, but whose stories were not told in the trial.

One witness was withdrawn by the prosecution with no explanation. For others, the judge ruled their stories would be likely to prejudice the jury unfairly against the entertainer.

Miss F wrote a newspaper article in 2012 about being groped by a “household name” – although she did not name him.

She said they were live on air with two TV cameras trained on them, when she felt his hand “inching under my bottom and worming its way beneath my skirt” until his fingers were “grasping at the elastic of my panties”.

She felt unable to confront him or slap him on live TV, and feared a backlash if she went public with her accusations.

During the trial police received an anonymous tip linking Miss F’s story to Harris, and they took a statement from her and found old TV footage of the interview, which the prosecution said showed the moment she was groped.

However the defence argued, in the absence of the jury, that it would be unfair to Harris to allow her evidence to be heard, because they had not had enough time to investigate her claims. They also said it was unclear from the footage what was happening.

Miss F’s story strikes a chord with those of the two high-profile West Australian media figures who accused Harris of groping them after radio interviews.

In May, after the trial had begun, radio host Jane Marwick said Harris had grabbed her breast while posing for a photo after an interview in 2001, when she was 30, and ABC TV newsreader Verity James said Harris assaulted her and a female producer after a radio segment in 2000.

“He kind of pushes you up against a wall in a big hug, grabbing at the buttocks and rubbing on your breasts,” James said.

Marwick said she “was deeply mortified and embarrassed” by the behaviour of a man she said she had previously admired.

In legal argument before the trial, it was revealed that others had made claims to police about alleged assault or harassment by Harris.

Because they were not heard in court, the defence did not have the opportunity to cross-examine them or test their claims.

‘'KB'’ said she was 14 in 1977 when she met Harris, who was in the company of Harry Butler, at a motel that her family ran in Sydney. She claimed Harris grabbed her bottom, then followed her into her mother’s room saying “Rolfie deserves a cuddle”. He then followed her to the lift and touched her breasts. Her evidence was ruled admissible in the trial, however, and the prosecution decided not to call her as a witness.

‘'Miss G'’ met Harris during an art class in Belfast and asked if she could interview him for the BBC – she said he pressed against her and stuck his tongue into her mouth. She felt disgusted and dirty, and called him “opportunistic and predatory”, prosecutor Sasha Wass, QC, said.

‘'Miss C'’ was 13 or 14 about 1996, and walking around a village fete in Berkshire when she saw Harris signing autographs. He allegedly called out to her, saying he liked her jumper and wanted to see what was underneath it.

''Ms S'’ was a 24-year-old with psychiatric problems who claimed to have encountered Harris in 1999 on holiday at a villa, where she said he met her in a garden and put his hand inside her skirt, then later came into her room and “molested her”.

‘'Ms H'’ was 20 but “looked younger” in 2001 when she met Harris at an art competition at Kensington Olympia, an exhibition centre in West London. She said he pinched her bottom while they were being positioned for a photograph, and he shrugged when she looked angry.

‘'Miss M'’ was about 14 in 2005 and working as a barmaid at a Berkshire pub, where TV personality Michael Parkinson was holding a party. She claimed Harris grabbed her while she was clearing up and – in front of his wife – started to kiss her neck.

Describing the allegations in court, Ms Wass said some of the allegations could not be prosecuted because they were outside British jurisdiction or “borderline in their criminality”.

Defence counsel Simon Ray said some of the allegations involved situations in which there had been consent to what took place, but had been “tinged with the passage of time with regret”.

And he said it would be a “dangerous line” to use hearsay to “vilify the defendant for demonstrating sexual attraction to women much younger than him” but not underage, saying it was an argument “of morality, not criminality”.

Mr Ray also argued that too many such witnesses would be dangerous to the fairness of the trial

The jury was also not permitted to watch a film, recorded by Harris, featuring his wife and daughter asleep or on the cusp of waking up.

In the end, the jury were given a short description of the film instead.

The prosecution was also not permitted to show the jury an educational anti-child-abuse video that Harris made in the 1980s for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, although Harris confirmed on the witness stand that he had made it.

In the 20-minute video, titled Kids Can Say No!, Harris talks to four children about "yes feelings" and "no feelings" and demonstrates situations in which children might be in danger from people they knew and trusted, as well as from strangers.

The video was used by schools and health authorities across Britain.

[BradEL]

Originally Posted by cheap

image

Actual subtitles from one of his show...

That's so pedo!

[zilo]

Originally Posted by cheap

Unbelievable, I've bolded several sections, says a lot about justice and the power of argument V's getting to the truth, evidence excluded because it would be harmful to Rolf's defense - WTF !

http://www.smh.com.au/world/rolf-har...701-zsrjc.html

Rolf Harris guilty: The stories the jury didn't hear, including an alleged grope on live TV

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris is found guilty of 12 charges of indecently assaulting four girls over nearly 20 years from 1968.

Entertainer Rolf Harris allegedly groped a respected British television presenter on live TV – but the jury in his indecent assault trial never got to hear her story.

The woman, "Miss F", was one of several who came forward with claims about being groped or harassed by Harris, but whose stories were not told in the trial.

One witness was withdrawn by the prosecution with no explanation. For others, the judge ruled their stories would be likely to prejudice the jury unfairly against the entertainer.

Miss F wrote a newspaper article in 2012 about being groped by a “household name” – although she did not name him.

She said they were live on air with two TV cameras trained on them, when she felt his hand “inching under my bottom and worming its way beneath my skirt” until his fingers were “grasping at the elastic of my panties”.

She felt unable to confront him or slap him on live TV, and feared a backlash if she went public with her accusations.

During the trial police received an anonymous tip linking Miss F’s story to Harris, and they took a statement from her and found old TV footage of the interview, which the prosecution said showed the moment she was groped.

However the defence argued, in the absence of the jury, that it would be unfair to Harris to allow her evidence to be heard, because they had not had enough time to investigate her claims. They also said it was unclear from the footage what was happening.

Miss F’s story strikes a chord with those of the two high-profile West Australian media figures who accused Harris of groping them after radio interviews.

In May, after the trial had begun, radio host Jane Marwick said Harris had grabbed her breast while posing for a photo after an interview in 2001, when she was 30, and ABC TV newsreader Verity James said Harris assaulted her and a female producer after a radio segment in 2000.

“He kind of pushes you up against a wall in a big hug, grabbing at the buttocks and rubbing on your breasts,” James said.

Marwick said she “was deeply mortified and embarrassed” by the behaviour of a man she said she had previously admired.

In legal argument before the trial, it was revealed that others had made claims to police about alleged assault or harassment by Harris.

Because they were not heard in court, the defence did not have the opportunity to cross-examine them or test their claims.

‘'KB'’ said she was 14 in 1977 when she met Harris, who was in the company of Harry Butler, at a motel that her family ran in Sydney. She claimed Harris grabbed her bottom, then followed her into her mother’s room saying “Rolfie deserves a cuddle”. He then followed her to the lift and touched her breasts. Her evidence was ruled admissible in the trial, however, and the prosecution decided not to call her as a witness.

‘'Miss G'’ met Harris during an art class in Belfast and asked if she could interview him for the BBC – she said he pressed against her and stuck his tongue into her mouth. She felt disgusted and dirty, and called him “opportunistic and predatory”, prosecutor Sasha Wass, QC, said.

‘'Miss C'’ was 13 or 14 about 1996, and walking around a village fete in Berkshire when she saw Harris signing autographs. He allegedly called out to her, saying he liked her jumper and wanted to see what was underneath it.

''Ms S'’ was a 24-year-old with psychiatric problems who claimed to have encountered Harris in 1999 on holiday at a villa, where she said he met her in a garden and put his hand inside her skirt, then later came into her room and “molested her”.

‘'Ms H'’ was 20 but “looked younger” in 2001 when she met Harris at an art competition at Kensington Olympia, an exhibition centre in West London. She said he pinched her bottom while they were being positioned for a photograph, and he shrugged when she looked angry.

‘'Miss M'’ was about 14 in 2005 and working as a barmaid at a Berkshire pub, where TV personality Michael Parkinson was holding a party. She claimed Harris grabbed her while she was clearing up and – in front of his wife – started to kiss her neck.

Describing the allegations in court, Ms Wass said some of the allegations could not be prosecuted because they were outside British jurisdiction or “borderline in their criminality”.

Defence counsel Simon Ray said some of the allegations involved situations in which there had been consent to what took place, but had been “tinged with the passage of time with regret”.

And he said it would be a “dangerous line” to use hearsay to “vilify the defendant for demonstrating sexual attraction to women much younger than him” but not underage, saying it was an argument “of morality, not criminality”.

Mr Ray also argued that too many such witnesses would be dangerous to the fairness of the trial

The jury was also not permitted to watch a film, recorded by Harris, featuring his wife and daughter asleep or on the cusp of waking up.

In the end, the jury were given a short description of the film instead.

The prosecution was also not permitted to show the jury an educational anti-child-abuse video that Harris made in the 1980s for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, although Harris confirmed on the witness stand that he had made it.

In the 20-minute video, titled Kids Can Say No!, Harris talks to four children about "yes feelings" and "no feelings" and demonstrates situations in which children might be in danger from people they knew and trusted, as well as from strangers.

The video was used by schools and health authorities across Britain.

Whilst not defending him your post fails the clear thinking test.
Nice long quote, however most of the "girls" were over 18.
And..how does a 14 year old get a job as a barmaid?


I hope the jury were right...

[ltd]

Originally Posted by zilo

Whilst not defending him your post fails the clear thinking test.
Nice long quote, however most of the "girls" were over 18.
And..how does a 14 year old get a job as a barmaid?


I hope the jury were right...

Simple, on the B side of his record there's the song:

"I'm Jake the Ped diddle diddle diddle dum;
with a horny third leg diddle diddle diddle dum." - proof positive of intention.

Seriously though, his dalliances have been well documented - why do you think his daughter has refused to talk to him for almost 10 years? It was allegedly her teen friend he diddle diddle diddle dummed with.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-daughter.html

[Crazy Dazz]

I must say that some of the "complaints" against him are rubbish, 30yr women complaining he pinched their bum, etc.
BUT, they seem to simply be a continuum of his disgusting behaviour which included actual sexual assault of young children.
There's a special corner of hell reserved for excrement like him.

[buggerlugs]

Originally Posted by mik

He always came across as a fine upstanding citizen in his earlier days via the media....... didle lidle lidle lum !

So did a lot of Catholic Priests..............

[cheap]

Here he is acclimatising to life behind bars , meanwhile Bubba is told of his new cell mate

[Trevor 57]

Originally Posted by Crazy Dazz

I must say that some of the "complaints" against him are rubbish, 30yr women complaining he pinched their bum, etc.
BUT, they seem to simply be a continuum of his disgusting behaviour which included actual sexual assault of young children.
There's a special corner of hell reserved for excrement like him.

it is actually against the law to sexually adult girls too, (which includes unwanted groping, feeling, pinching) in case you missed that part of your education into adulthood

[ltd]

Originally Posted by buggerlugs

So did a lot of Catholic Priests..............

Just a point of information as to the catholic priests allegedly being the worst offenders in the world - it couldn't be further from the truth.

Of all vocations priests rank amongst the lowest percentage in the world of sexual offenders - with less than 1 percent being offenders.

Amongst the highest percentile of offenders are judges, police, and the worst are the boy-scouts.
Further, you're 8 times more likely to be offended against as a child by a relative than you are by a priest; a far cry from the images perpetrated by the media. If journalists weren't scared they'd blow the lid off the religion of peace - and the endemic of underage marriages from men to pre-teenagers.

If you haven't been able to figure out why the catholic church has the royal commission into it (in big bold type) and other religions (in small font) then I'll lay it out for you:
John McTiernan advocated the royal commission based on the fact that if he makes Catholicism look bad, then enough stupid people will think lots of Catholics are inherently bad. Why would he do this? Well, his boss the former PM Gillard, was going into an election against a practicing Catholic who was once going to be a priest no less. Coincidence?
Sorry, but the whole thing was politicized from the beginning.
I'm not defending Catholic priests, but the off the cuff remarks of a smear campaign started by a political animal fighting for survival by defamation of a large group of people has really gone on too long.
By all means expose the predators and lock them up, but don't fall for a political campaign started by a hack trying every dirty trick in the book to smear the opponent.

[Marquis]

Hope Jake the peg gets the extra leg from Bubba for many years.

[JC]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

It's filthy mongrels like this that make parents have concerns and whisper behind hands to other when I walk into a kindy class to teach....

I would like to remain a member of this site so I'll leave it at that...

It must suck to look like Rolfe Harris.....

On a serious note - I hope they put him away for the rest of his "it takes two to tango" life......