AliceInWanderLost
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the amount of fans in the comments arguing and fiercely adamant that Sue was 18 when her first child was born - even mentioning "the maths", as Sue is 48 and her eldest is 30 - part of the issue seems to be that Chris not appearing in the show means that they have successfully fooled much of their audience into thinking Sophie is the eldest of their brood, and given the backlash in some of the comments with valid accusations of statutory rape, it wouldn't surprise me of they are having regrets about publishing their book, as that seems to have opened people's eyes to the fact she was a child when Noel impregnated her. hardly surprising it was a detail very much glossed over by Channel 5. also very telling that so many of their so-called fans are adamant that both Sue and Noel grew up in care, entirely unaware that they were both adopted as babies and raised by their adoptive parentsSeems they may have just been achieved to stop any deletion lol.
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that said, there are still loads of the usual defensive responses - happily married, they stayed together, hard-working family, things were different back in the 80s and nobody would have seen statutory rape as a crime "back then" etc - with the worst being that it wasn't rape because they both consented - as though a 13 is able to give consent - plus the usual spiel about teen pregnancies not being uncommon, blah blah blah, as though they were both young teens and not a 17year old abusing a child he had first met when she was 7 years old.
not to mention a comment I saw that said Sue was likely a typical teen who had lied to him her older boyfriend about her age, and looked far older than she was - anyone who has seen the photo of Sue holding baby Chris, it is blatantly obvious that she is a young girl. even if Noel hadn't been aware of her age - which he was, having known her since she was a young child - it would be veyy obvious from her appearance that she was far younger than 16, and that he was sexually attracted to a CHILD.