Marlon King bashes a young girl but may still be re-signed, wtf?!

[CassandraL]

This news story was shared on another community I'm a member of and it just sickens me:

"As Marlon King, 29, began an 18-month jail sentence for groping 20-year-old student Emily Carr and punching her in the face, she told for the first time how the £35,000-a-week striker taunted and floored her in the vicious nightclub attack.

King's pretty young victim wept and shuddered as she recalled the horrific moment he punched her full in the face and sent her crashing to the nightclub floor.
As he started an 18-month jail term for groping and attacking her, Emily, 20, exclusively told the News of the World: "King thought he was Mr Big, but he's just a thug with a gold card."

In a moving interview she told how the 29-year-old Premier League player:
* GROPED her bottom in front of shocked clubbers.
* TAUNTED her about his vast wealth when she complained.
* POWERED up his devastating punch with a deliberate step back to gather strength for the blow that knocked her off her feet.
* ORDERED a beefy pal to make a menacing "apology" implying it was HER fault.
* FORCED her to endure a harrowing trial by refusing to admit his guilt.

Although Wigan have sacked King and his behaviour has been widely condemned, Emily is angry there's no universal cry for him to be banned from the game for life.
"I believe in giving people a second chance but King has 13 previous convictions and has used up all his chances."
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, disagrees. He said: "When he has paid his sentence, of course you would consider signing someone like that. Otherwise you would never forgive anybody anything."

But Emily hit back: "Would a manager like Wenger be saying that and proposing to pay such a thug massive amounts of money every week if HIS daughter was attacked?
"It sets a bad precedent if you fail your fans and endorse these brutes."

Here's the full story: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news...peaks-out.html

It's a classic example of how many athletes these days think they can get away with anything. It also sickens me how victims in cases like this and in rape cases are blamed for 'dressing provocatively.' Sure I don't like a lot of what young girls are wearing these days but I'm offended that anyone would see it as an invitation to abuse them.

[FeminineMystique]

Having spent five years putting up with morons and thugs like King I'm used to the "It's your own fault" BS they use when they think a woman who dresses in a sexy way wants every jack ass around to start pawing over her like she was a piece of meat.

As for him being re-signed it doesn't surprise me. Just one more sign of how screwed up the world is thar apparently it's fine for a bullying thug who attacked an innocent woman to be forgiven simply because he can kick a bit of leather around a field

[Michael P]

Originally Posted by CassandraL

It's a classic example of how many athletes these days think they can get away with anything.

Actually, it strikes me as a classic example of how athletes can get away with anything.

[mikekerr3]

Originally Posted by CassandraL

This news story was shared on another community I'm a member of and it just sickens me:

"As Marlon King, 29, began an 18-month jail sentence for groping 20-year-old student Emily Carr and punching her in the face, she told for the first time how the £35,000-a-week striker taunted and floored her in the vicious nightclub attack.

King's pretty young victim wept and shuddered as she recalled the horrific moment he punched her full in the face and sent her crashing to the nightclub floor.
As he started an 18-month jail term for groping and attacking her, Emily, 20, exclusively told the News of the World: "King thought he was Mr Big, but he's just a thug with a gold card."

In a moving interview she told how the 29-year-old Premier League player:
* GROPED her bottom in front of shocked clubbers.
* TAUNTED her about his vast wealth when she complained.
* POWERED up his devastating punch with a deliberate step back to gather strength for the blow that knocked her off her feet.
* ORDERED a beefy pal to make a menacing "apology" implying it was HER fault.
* FORCED her to endure a harrowing trial by refusing to admit his guilt.

Although Wigan have sacked King and his behaviour has been widely condemned, Emily is angry there's no universal cry for him to be banned from the game for life.
"I believe in giving people a second chance but King has 13 previous convictions and has used up all his chances."
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, disagrees. He said: "When he has paid his sentence, of course you would consider signing someone like that. Otherwise you would never forgive anybody anything."

But Emily hit back: "Would a manager like Wenger be saying that and proposing to pay such a thug massive amounts of money every week if HIS daughter was attacked?
"It sets a bad precedent if you fail your fans and endorse these brutes."

Here's the full story: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news...peaks-out.html

It's a classic example of how many athletes these days think they can get away with anything. It also sickens me how victims in cases like this and in rape cases are blamed for 'dressing provocatively.' Sure I don't like a lot of what young girls are wearing these days but I'm offended that anyone would see it as an invitation to abuse them.

Is there any particular reason that she can't sue his ass and take away all that money?

[CassandraL]

Poor girl probably just wants to try and forgot it as much as she can at this stage.

[FeminineMystique]

Originally Posted by CassandraL

Poor girl probably just wants to try and forgot it as much as she can at this stage.

I can't say I'd blame her.

[Venom Melendez]

Originally Posted by mikekerr3

Is there any particular reason that she can't sue his ass and take away all that money?

or the league for that matter.

[FeminineMystique]

Originally Posted by Venom Melendez

or the league for that matter.

Sadly being heartless assholes isn't enough to sue them for. I wish it WAS

[NickThompson]

Originally Posted by CassandraL

It's a classic example of how many athletes these days think they can get away with anything.

Sorry, but I have to disagree with this. Marlon King has 13 convictions for various things that go back to when he was 17. Don't blame sportsmen for one guy who is a fuck. He is a classic example of nothing to do with sport.

Originally Posted by Michael P

Actually, it strikes me as a classic example of how athletes can get away with anything.

Get away with 18 months in prison?

Originally Posted by Venom Melendez

or the league for that matter.

What exactly are you going to sue the league for?

[DoctorDoom]

I've dealt with jocks like that years ago. It was satisfying to see them go down hard.

[mikekerr3]

Originally Posted by NickThompson

Sorry, but I have to disagree with this. Marlon King has 13 convictions for various things that go back to when he was 17. Don't blame sportsmen for one guy who is a fuck. He is a classic example of nothing to do with sport.

The Sport pays the thug, they take what come with him. Do you think a company who knowing;y hires people like him bears no responsibility?

Originally Posted by NickThompson

Get away with 18 months in prison?

For a vicious assault after building up a long arrest record, that getting away with it. In the US he could have gotten 18 months just for the sexual assault

[NickThompson]

Originally Posted by mikekerr3

The Sport pays the thug, they take what come with him. Do you think a company who knowing;y hires people like him bears no responsibility?

I'm not sure how that is relevent to my point. I'm saying that to use one quite clearly bad apple from before he had any level of success as a classic example of sportsmen is unfair.

I mean, there are 20 teams in the Premier League and they all have more than 20 players on their books. So that's well over 400 players just in the top league, some of them will be bad people not through being sportsmen but through statistics.

For a vicious assault after building up a long arrest record, that getting away with it. In the US he could have gotten 18 months just for the sexual assault

A long arrest record of in many cases unrelated crimes though, I don't think they would affect his sentence, punishment for a crime doesn't increase for merely commiting further crimes.

And what happens in the US is irellevent, this is a case in Britain. Using that logic convicted murderers in the UK get away with it because in the US they might get the electric chair.

And even then, you're not showing that sportsmen can get away with anything. He got found guilty, he has gone to prison, 18 months doesn't sound far off to me for what you hear for people who punch someone in the face.

[M. Bushbug]

Originally Posted by mikekerr3

The Sport pays the thug, they take what come with him. Do you think a company who knowing;y hires people like him bears no responsibility?

Sure they bear responsibility. For what he does during his on hours. His off hours are his responsibility. Do you really think that holding someone else for his actions during his own time is a good thing?

[mikekerr3]

Originally Posted by M. Bushbug

Sure they bear responsibility. For what he does during his on hours. His off hours are his responsibility. Do you really think that holding someone else for his actions during his own time is a good thing?

If they re-hire a viscously violent criminal, yes.

[M. Bushbug]

Originally Posted by mikekerr3

If they re-hire a viscously violent criminal, yes.

Wow. People really do go out of their way to allow for this kind of behavior from sports figures don't they?

Lets hold someone completely different from the person that did it responsible.