CONFUSION, rumours and accusations were flying on social media this week regarding the sex incident which allegedly took place in a Bay cinema last weekend.
Weekend Post sister publication The Herald’s Facebook page, opinion page and SMS column were abuzz, with no fewer than 197 comments on Facebook which included accusations of poor parenting and irresponsible children in the wake of three teens and an 11-year-old girl allegedly being caught having sex in the Baywest Mall cinema.
Brendan Venter Bartosch posted: “. . . why do parents just drop off their kids and leave them to do as they please . . . Parents are not parents . . . you go with your kids at that age. Vroeg ryp vroeg vrot [ripe early, rotten early].”
Michelle Munro posted: “And saying that the 11-year-old is innocent and doesn’t know better . . . Puhleeeze. My child is four and she knows NO ONE touches you and people don’t expose themselves to you.
“It starts at home. At 11, you get educated from pre-school already as to ‘bad behaviour’.”
Pearl Shadwell said it was not uncommon for children to be unsupervised at malls.
“I work in a busy mall in Port Elizabeth and many parents drop off young 10-year-olds and teenagers at these malls. Children of that age need adult supervision. They gang around at night in the dark smoking and hanging all over boys. No mall is a place for young kids to be left alone,” she posted.
Some residents came to the defence of those involved, such as Emelda Cunningham who posted: “I have four girls and news like this makes me freak out. Instead of judging let us try to learn from these mistakes . . . I feel sorry for both sides of the parents. Let’s try and rebuild rather than break down.”
-Tremaine van Aardt
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