Sunday, 9 March 2008

Feckless Parenting in the UK

A young British girl, 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling, who was found dead on a Goa beach, was likely to have been murdered as a part of a sex attack. Scarlett's body was found on the beach on 18 February, while the rest of her family was travelling in the neighbouring state of Karnataka.

Daughter And Mother
Daughter And Mother

Her mother (and of eight others), Ms MacKeown, and her current partner had taken five of Scarlett's eight siblings to Goa for a six-month holiday in November, and they had left the fifteen year old on her own, while they travelled.

A man, who it is thought, may have witnessed Scarlett being assaulted, is said to have gone into hiding because he is afraid for his own safety, because sex attacks are a common thing in India, where the most usual victims are low caste women. The British High Commission has confirmed four of ten British deaths in Goa this year (we are only in March!) were from unnatural causes.

So these are the facts:

  • A mother and her Partner takes six of her nine children out of the UK for six months to indulge in a holiday in Goa (apparently they were being "Home educated by Ms MacKeown", apart from Scarlett who was taken from college).
  • The fifteen year old is allowed to drink in the beach bars until the early hours (she was in the bar at 4am on the final day of her life), despite it being illegal (Last time I checked, allowing under 18's to drink alcohol was illegal, whether it was abroad or not - incidentally it's also illegal in India to consume alcohol under the age of 18).
  • She is left on her own by 'the family', who go to another part of India without her (again, 'home alone' parents have been prosecuted in the UK within the last 10 wks).
  • She is found dead, apparently the subject of a violent sex attack, and drowned in the sea. The police initially say its a drunken drowning.
  • After Ms MacKeown insists, a second autopsy finds evidence of violence and Ms MacKeown claims that there has been a cover up. She neglects the fact that Indian policing is notorious for its incompetence and laziness, especially with people of no importance, or foreigners (especially foreign women, many of whom are often considered little better than whores for their wanton (by local standards) behaviour).

  • The Smallholding
    The Smallholding

     
    The mother, Fiona MacKeown, from a smallholding near Bideford, North Devon (Some land with caravans on it), has been quoted as saying that the sometimes harsh public criticism of her for leaving her teenage daughter "alone", in such an 'exotic' Indian tourist spot, (one with a growing reputation for its drug and sex side), was wrong. She didn't consider her to be 'alone', because she was in the care of a 25 yr old tour guide (Julio), who was "quite responsible". She added that her daughter was "three months away from being 16, and in England that's considered quite mature" and that she was "a young lady growing up" ...... well sadly not now.

    According to some reports, her daughter was also sleeping with the "quite responsible" young man called 'Julio' .... so it appears that under age sex was involved in this 'holiday' and the mother appeared either not to notice, or ignored it.

    The apparently casual attitude of this mother towards drug use, under-age sex, and formal education, as described in the article from the the Daily Mail (link above), would have been considered dangerous, and possibly worthy of prosecution some years ago, but now in the broken UK, where living off State Benefits whilst travelling the world, is apparently accepted as OK, there is hardly any public response from the authorities.
    • Where are Social Services?
    • Where are the Education Authority?
    • Where are the Police?
    • Why is the local MP not demanding action?
    Just when you think that the UK can't sink any lower in the underclass it produces, along comes another story that shows we are still plumbing the depths. Generations of single parent women have produced an entire social group who live off the rest of us. We pay billions each year in taxes for agencies who are meant to protect children, but they appear nowhere in this story.

    It appears that one 'new age' woman, can just bypass all the child protection processes and a child dies. When you consider that all the legislation of the 1960's, aimed at liberating women from the shackles of history, ends up with a whole sub strata of parents like this, it makes you wonder if we went down the wrong route, that 'women's liberation' has brought only unhappiness and insecurity, to generations of western women.

    But most of all, where is the sense of shame that this sort of behaviour is now typical of many representatives of the UK single parent underclass, created by consequence of the PC liberal welfare policies that created a benefit sub culture, who never work, and for whom having many children is a way of ensuring that they never have to.

    The police in GOA have amazingly arrested three 'suspects', only hours after denying there had even been a crime according to the Press Association .............. another bit of instant justice from a corrupt Police force. They have now just arrested two men who were seen with Miss Keeling at 4 am .... whether this is just 'the usual suspects' it's hard to determine.

    Update 2012:

    Fiona MacKeown pleaded guilty to falsely claiming £19,000 in income support in April 2010, and was given an eight-month suspended jail term and ordered to repay the debt. In March 2011 she still hadn't repaid the money and was reported as possibly having to have to sell her small holding. But as there are  tyres stored on it and there is a planning permission issue over a barn she had built, there are problems with selling the land. She faces she jail for 12 months if the money was not fully repaid by August 27th.
     
    This isn't her first brush with prison according to reports from her son. He said she had been jailed aged 18 in 1983, when she served a year of a three-year sentence for attempted manslaughter. As usual no reports of whether she paid debt or sold smallholding.
     
    Update 2019:

    Yes eleven years later this has still been going through the Indian legal system ..... and sadly, as we suspected way back then, the conclusion is that no one has been convicted. The two suspects were acquitted in 2016, and the prosecutors appeal was rejected with the Indian High Court listing it for disposal (closure) in April 2019. I doubt very much if despite her protestations, the mother has learnt very much from this tragic episode .... but perhaps I am wrong.     

    Further Update 2019:

    Despite earlier reports to the contrary, the Indian higher courts have now been reported as unexpectedly upholding the conviction of one suspect, Samson D'Sousa, who has been convicted of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder', whilst acquitting the other chief suspect. Amazingly the mother, still regularly takes herself off to India 'Whenever I go to India, they are always worried about what will happen to me.' ......

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    2 comments:

    1. I wonder where Germaine Greer and all the other media feminists are now?

      Do they find it sad or shocking that women like this mother, are the direct result of the liberal policies they foisted on the rest of us in the 1960's?

      Surely they never really thought that 'free sex' and the 'women don't need men philosophies', would result in the UK having the largest population of unmarried women having children by numerous partners in the EU?

      If we carry on like this much longer, there will be no married couples and their children left in the UK. Just a lot of slutty women and feckless men ... only meeting up for procreational purposes.

      How are women supposed to have gained by all this?

      They work, or are on welfare, and their relationships breakdown after less than 2 yrs on average. In the 1960's women had around 1.5 sexual partners on average. Now its around 10 on average .... how can that be good?

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    2. Hi Disillusioned,

      Sorry I didn't reply immediately, I just don't get many comments so I forget to look.

      I agree with everything you have said ..... whats even more worrying is that feminists are totally silent about the Islamification of the UK law which can't be ggod for women.

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