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Speaker 1: So it turns out the woman that with whom Jeffn

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Speaker 1: mcskimming had an affair, whose warnings police ignored, and who

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Speaker 1: police charged instead of investigating Jeffn mcskimming, is still facing charges.

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Speaker 1: This is the news today and the police are having

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Speaker 1: to defend this. Now, the charges don't relate to messages

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Speaker 1: that she sent about mcskimming. Those charges are being dropped.

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Speaker 1: They relate to messages that she allegedly sent to another policeman,

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Speaker 1: the officer who originally arrested her, and emails she allegedly

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Speaker 1: sent to his wife. Now, this is undoubtedly going to

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Speaker 1: look bad for police because it will look like they

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Speaker 1: are still persecuting a victim. But how about we take

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Speaker 1: the emotion out of it and look at it again.

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Speaker 1: Just because jeff mcskimming is a creep and clearly the

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Speaker 1: villain of the story doesn't mean that she is necessarily innocent.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at the allegations. Allegedly emailing a police

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Speaker 1: officer is one thing. Allegedly emailing his wife is something else.

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Speaker 1: And this is after some pretty bunny boiler behavior, including

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Speaker 1: sending three hundred emails to mc skimming and others over

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Speaker 1: a series of years now. There will be some people

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Speaker 1: who have complete sympathy for her in this, who will

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Speaker 1: say that the allegations show that she is a woman

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Speaker 1: driven mad by being ignored and gas lit by the

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Speaker 1: very people as she was asking for help, and that

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Speaker 1: may well be true, and I suspect that it is,

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Speaker 1: and I feel sorry for her, and I feel sorry

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Speaker 1: for the horrible situation that jevn mc skimming the absolute creep,

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Speaker 1: has put her in. But I still don't think it

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Speaker 1: justifies alleged law breaking as a response, because that logic

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Speaker 1: is the very same logic that is used by the

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Speaker 1: soft judges who read cultural reports about offenders childhoods and

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Speaker 1: then excuse them for what they did because what it

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Speaker 1: was originally done to them when they were kids. Do

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Speaker 1: you follow what I'm saying now? Having said all of that,

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Speaker 1: if you're of the view that she only sent a

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Speaker 1: bunch of emails, so who really cares? Then why do

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Speaker 1: we have the law? Now that's a fair debate. We

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Speaker 1: can have a debate about that law, because not everyone

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Speaker 1: loves the Harmful Digital Communications Act. But if the law exists,

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Speaker 1: and if you allegedly break that law and the police,

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Speaker 1: despite realizing how bad. It will look for them to

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Speaker 1: charge you still choose to charge you, then, isn't there

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