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The Girl Who Became Three Boys
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On channel 4 last night. Did anyone watch it?
Bit unfortunate. I found myself laughing a lot at Jessica (one of the victims) and her nan. Am I a bad person?
The whole story was just bizaare.
Bit unfortunate. I found myself laughing a lot at Jessica (one of the victims) and her nan. Am I a bad person?
The whole story was just bizaare.
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Glad someone did. Found myself being really skepitcal as to whether it's even true or not. Did you?
Jessica had perfect comic timing during the interview 'I was really frigid as a teenager'. Ahh dear. Poor girl
Ahh yeah that made me chuckle too. I do think something isn't quite right though. She must have really low self esteem if she waited on a grass verge for 7 hours to see her boyfriend and 'fell in love with him' despite never seeing his face and the communication through text message. I felt bad for her.
Really really odd story though. Think Channel 4 wanted viewers to find it funny too.
Just look at the fucknuckle on the other thread wanting to "help people with food phobias". Yeah, in the same way Embarrasing Bodies helps people with physical disfigurements.
This programme was also followed by a bad documentary called 'Lost Children'. Point taken!
Mindblown and hysterical laughter gets you half way to the picture. Especially as the guy telling the story ended up drawing diagrams to help with the explanation.
I wouldnt be surprised if they did. They both seemed pretty vulnerable, naive and desperate for love. Maybe they knew it was Gemma and carried on anyway?
"I'm a normal 16 year old - I like Nandos" or whatever she said.
I especially loved that after all of it, she had found another boyfriend on facebook!! Did you not learn your lesson the first time?!
Of course there is an element of what AR said but if i was her grandmother, she would not even know what facebook was anymore
this whole case and she didn't come across daft, or silly, in fact I felt really sorry for her and thought what an absolute weirdo that Gemma must be.
but after watching the documentary I couldn't believe the lengths of things she'd believed, like she believed 'connor' when he was saying that it wasn't him sexually assaulting her it was her ex 'luke' they were running off and swapping places?! I know at 14/15 you're naive and not very experienced but still? I thought it came across a bit like she was a bit slow.
it kind of fascinates me how that Gemma thought she could get away with it though.
She'd just been diagnosed with ASD...perhaps that could explain it.
I'm dead sympathetic me.
That's not what the court decided, it was simply that they were underage. And she lied about her gender.
I can't help but think that if it was just relations with a minor then the prison sentance is somewhat ott given the age gap.
from http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/woman-jailed-for-disguising-herself-as-boy-to-date-her-own-friends-3039528.html
So I guess assault and fraud. Having a slow day but is it classed as assault because she deceived them into thinking she was a boy or was it assault because she forced herself on one of them?
It was this bit that made me thought it: "She had committed repeated sexual assaults - up to 20 on one girl, by pretending to be a boy, and perhaps half that number on the other girl, using two more male disguises. "
How that is very different to pretending to be in love/pretending there isn't a wife at home, I don't know.