Sex abuse victims are 'paying the price for their previous life' claims Coronation Street star - Polidicks

[B]'Sex abuse victims bring it on themselves': Coronation Street's Bill Roache gives astonishing TV interview and appears to defend stars accused of abusing young girls [/B]- He claims sex abuse victims paying the price for behaviour in 'previous lives' - Mr Roache said it was easy for stars to be 'trapped' by young groupies - 80-year-old actor plays Ken Barlow in the popular ITV soap [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295588/Bill-Roache-Sex-abuse-victims-bring-themselves.html[/url]

Oh, it's this guy. He was on This Morning last week having some woman read his dogs' minds. He's fucking nuts.

Even if you believe this stuff, surely you know how stupid it is to say it during an interview?

decrepit, sheltered old fart

Also, my surname is Roach, truly I am ashamed to be known by that.

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;39968335]Also, my surname is Roach, truly I am ashamed to be known by that.[/QUOTE] My surname is also Roche.....time to change my name I guess

Nurse, he's out of bed again.

I like how after he talked about pedophilia and victims they cut the interview showing some clips of him acting and right after that he says this cheesy new age ish quote: "And if you know you are pure love, and therefore live that pure love, these things don't happen to you" Then the guy interviewing him asks him if that applies to victims too. He makes a sound and face that obviously doesn't agree with with that. But since he actually just said that he explain how he didn't mean it like that.

Some out-of-touch pensioner who should have been buried before the war says some really rather ill-informed and generally fucked-up shit and we're meant to take him seriously? If you're in the public eye for anything except politics, keep your obsolete social commentary to yourself, you just end up upsetting a lot of people and having your own reputation brought down before you die and the collective IQ of the world goes up a notch.

Even if that was true, how does that change anything? If it was the case that 'previous life' was a thing, I wouldn't have any control over what the fuckwit I was in my previous life did, so nobody in the next life should be held accountable for what happened. As a religious or philosophical thought, sure, go ahead and believe that all horrible things that happen to people are because of bad things they did in previous lives, but that doesn't make horrible things any less horrible or any more acceptable.

First Kevin Webster now Ken Barlow! Now all we need is Roy Cropper to be seen falling out of a strip club at 6am and Corrie will be ruined [i]RUINED I SAY!![/i]

Man, imagine the sexual abuse this guy'll receive in his next life for being such an insensitive prick.

Of course, the press is over sensationalising what he said. He was making a comment that he believed that our past lives dictate our current experiences (Whatever the hell that means), it was the reporter who made the suggestion, not Roache. [quote]Speaking to TVNZ, he said: "If you accept that you are pure love ... and therefore live that pure love, these things won't happen to you." "To some people that sounds perhaps like you're saying victims bring things on themselves. Is that what you're saying?" The star replied: "No I would not go along and say things like that. I'm not saying that. In this situation where we can only talk about the law. I'm not going to talk about victims or life. "Life is what we make it. We do come into life to learn from certain experiences and broadly some of the major experiences we have we have asked to go through. This is my understanding of life." He added: "[B]If you're going to pin me down and start saying 'all victims deserve what they're getting'. No I am not saying that at all."[/B][/quote] So... well I have no idea what to make of what he said, but he didn't explicitly imply what's he accredited as saying. Then again, looking through trying to find points to defend him with futher, this quote: [quote]"I think it's probably unfair to judge too harshly today on things that were done 20 or 30 years ago. There should be a greater understanding that things were different in those days."[/quote] .. Yeah I give up. [quote]He added: "I'm not excusing inappropriate and insensitive behaviour to women. I think women are wonderful and they should be treated with respect."[/quote] No backpeddling detected at all. Nope.

Yeeesh, someone get this man his medication before he offends even more victims of horrific violation.

God damnit Ken. Ken is an insensitive prick I can't wait for Peter to hook him seeing as his GF was abused.

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;39969262]God damnit Ken.[/QUOTE] Dammit Ken, you had 1 job! No.. really, you've only had 1 job.

think this thread should be revived considering this just happened: [quote]Coronation Street's Bill Roache charged with rape of 15-year-old in 1967 ITV soap's longest-serving cast member expected to be edited out of episodes in near future following arrest[/quote] [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/01/bill-roache-charged-rape-1967[/url]

[QUOTE=Roger Waters;40523603]think this thread should be revived considering this just happened: [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/01/bill-roache-charged-rape-1967[/url][/QUOTE] I shouldn't be laughing at this but I can't help it.

Oh hes gonna get soooo raped in his next life then

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[QUOTE=matt.ant;39968318]- Mr Roache said it was easy for stars to be 'trapped' by young groupies[/QUOTE] mate you're on corrie not in aerosmith regardless he's up on rape charges so it sounds more like he trapped a young groupie