It's not looking great is it? I think he best start getting used to jogging bottoms with matching jumpers.
The trial of Adam Johnson (part 2)
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It's not looking great is it? I think he best start getting used to jogging bottoms with matching jumpers.
The England footballer Adam Johnson “abused his revered position in society” when he sexually touched a 15-year-old schoolgirl in his car after giving her a signed football shirt, a court has heard.
The midfielder, 28, knew the girl had only just turned 15 when he arranged to meet her behind a Chinese takeaway in County Durham last January, jurors were told on Friday.
Kate Blackwell QC, prosecuting, said Johnson showed “excessive arrogance” after sexually touching the teenager, a devout Sunderland fan who “idolised” the star.
The girl, who cannot be named, regularly waited outside the club’s stadium for a picture with Johnson and wore his name on her shirt, the court heard.
The footballer has admitted one count of grooming and one count of sexual activity with a child but denies two further sexual offence allegations.
The £60,000-a-week midfielder, capped 12 times for England, was sacked on Thursday night by Sunderland AFC and dropped by his sponsor Adidas after admitting two child sexual assault charges.
On the first day of his trial at Bradford crown court, jurors were told that Johnson arranged to meet the schoolgirl in his black Range Rover behind Happy Valley takeaway to engage in sexual activity weeks after they became friends on Facebook.
Blackwell said: “What has brought the defendant to this courtroom is a sexual desire for [the complainant], an excessive arrogance and an unwarranted level of expectation.
“He has abused his revered position in society and, having met this 15-year-old girl at Sunderland Football Club and on social media, and knowing that she looked up to him, made a conscious decision to act in a way that he knew was both morally and legally wrong.”
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The midfielder, 28, knew the girl had only just turned 15 when he arranged to meet her behind a Chinese takeaway in County Durham last January, jurors were told on Friday.
Kate Blackwell QC, prosecuting, said Johnson showed “excessive arrogance” after sexually touching the teenager, a devout Sunderland fan who “idolised” the star.
The girl, who cannot be named, regularly waited outside the club’s stadium for a picture with Johnson and wore his name on her shirt, the court heard.
The footballer has admitted one count of grooming and one count of sexual activity with a child but denies two further sexual offence allegations.
The £60,000-a-week midfielder, capped 12 times for England, was sacked on Thursday night by Sunderland AFC and dropped by his sponsor Adidas after admitting two child sexual assault charges.
On the first day of his trial at Bradford crown court, jurors were told that Johnson arranged to meet the schoolgirl in his black Range Rover behind Happy Valley takeaway to engage in sexual activity weeks after they became friends on Facebook.
Blackwell said: “What has brought the defendant to this courtroom is a sexual desire for [the complainant], an excessive arrogance and an unwarranted level of expectation.
“He has abused his revered position in society and, having met this 15-year-old girl at Sunderland Football Club and on social media, and knowing that she looked up to him, made a conscious decision to act in a way that he knew was both morally and legally wrong.”
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We are all affected by mental distortions in one form or another, however someone who ****s babies I would suggest can be correctly classified as mentally ill. You would say it's "sick" to be compelled to act in that manner and I'd agree. To have that kind of perversion is genuinely unnatural, whereas things like homosexuality have more frequent counterparts in nature.
I do think grooming and shagging a 15 year old is a bit more psychopathic, evil even, as it shows deliberate diversion from known rules and actual pursuit. But that's my opinion.
Varies case to case. I agree that there are unfair constructs derived from our obsession with "mental health" and deviations from it, but for the sake of simplicity, it's unnecessary to qualify every use of the term "mental illness".
Just goes to show how ignorant society is when we get thrown in with the nonces like. It's like people don't realise people with mental illness unless they've lost their mind actually know the difference between right and wrong and the decisions we make are generally down character not illness. Anyway, we're digressing.
[HASHTAG]#Johnson[/HASHTAG] Pros: they met and kissed and he unbuttoned her jeans and undid her zip.
[HASHTAG]#Johnson[/HASHTAG] Pros: he moved car to more secluded area and then committed two offences of sexual activity. She was beginning to feel awkward
Sounds all too familiar to me.
I know it's early days in the trial but does anyone now believe that he didn't have sex with her?
I don't. ****ing dirty ****. I shouldn't be following the updates really it's getting me angry
I just hope he didn't really.
Yeah it's turning my stomach to be honest.
I know it's early days in the trial but does anyone now believe that he didn't have sex with her?
I don't. ****ing dirty ****. I shouldn't be following the updates really it's getting me angry
No.
I've suspected his guilt since the grooming charge. It's been hard not to jump to conclusions given that as a character, aside from this court case, he was already known in this city to be an absolute dickhead.
I'm glad he never got anonymity for the last few months either, ****ing pig deserved every chant he got at grounds around this country.
So...she was one month over her 15th birthday? Reading between the lines he was clearly after sex and it sounds like he may have got it. If that is true then he's an even bigger piece of **** than I first thought.
Me too, though I didn't really come on here spouting it just to wait and see what happened, but so far the trials showing exactly how I might of expected t play out. Sickening.
Good on her, let's hope she goes home and changes the locks and makes him sleep in the ****ing bin tonight, where he belongs.
I hope she now realises what an absolute bellend he really is. That is the behaviour of a predatory *****phile [I know the clinical definition is someone attracted to pre-teens, but you get what I mean.]
The prosecution’s Kate Blackwell QC said after the encounter he messaged the teenager: “That wasn’t too bad was it?”
“Think we better go in the back next time?”
Johnson added. “Just wanted to get your jeans off though.”
Johnson: “I will last 10 seconds though.”
Girl: “Why’s that?”
Johnson replied: “Because it would be too good.”
Girl: “Was your thank you worth it?”
Johnson replied: “Yea might need another one.”
“Think we better go in the back next time?”
Johnson added. “Just wanted to get your jeans off though.”
Johnson: “I will last 10 seconds though.”
Girl: “Why’s that?”
Johnson replied: “Because it would be too good.”
Girl: “Was your thank you worth it?”
Johnson replied: “Yea might need another one.”
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