Another Met sex abuser found out: misconduct panel finds Steel groomed Adedeji
Another, now-former Metropolitan Police officer has been exposed after a misconduct panel found Ian Steel guilty of sexually grooming TV presenter Jackie Adedeji. Steel abused his position of power and used a fake identity to “fulfil his racialised sexual fantasy”. The panel said he would have been sacked for gross misconduct had he not already quit.
Adedeji, who waived her right to anonymity, said the finding had liberated her:
For the first time in 10 years, I feel free. The shame has disappeared, the silence has disappeared. I found my voice all over again. I’ve stood up for the 22-year-old version of me that felt voiceless. [This has been] the biggest fight of my life. It feels powerful because it’s a classic case of he said, she said, and my story never changed. It doesn’t benefit me to lie and the truth always prevails in the end.
Adedeji first met Steel as a 22-year-old in 2016, in the Shoreditch area of London. Steel claimed to be single and named Danny Stevens. In fact he was in a long-term relationship and had a child. All allegations against Steel were found proven and he has been barred from ever re-joining the police, but escapes criminal consequences.
Steel joins a long list of police sex abusers, rapists and murderers — especially in the Metropolitan Police.
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It seems that Canary has succumbed to the notion that any significant power differential in a sexual relationship leads to ‘grooming’ which was, I think, initially what primates did to remove ticks from their fur. One outcome of this idea is that women, and it is always women who are apparently being groomed, have no agency and are completely helpless victims of bad men. Only the intervention of the criminal justice system to arrest and imprison more men can make women’s lives better, because it seems the UK still does not have sufficient men languishing in prison cells.
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To understand correctly let’s also look at the antecedents and etymology of the term… consider for instance, “Bride and Groom” “Horse and Groom” and so forth…
The psychology of seduction and victimhood is also extremely complex.
Ambiguous, ironic and/or sarcastic commentary has no place here.
“Bridegroom” is actually a word of Old English origin, the R having crept in through false etymology, with the last element being OE “gama” – man/servant. Compare modern German “Brautigam”. Etymology is always a shaky basis for arguments around meaning. The glaring example is “egregious”, which entered English from Latin “egregius” – distinguished, a meaning retained my modern Italian “egregio”. The modern English meaning developed, very quickly, from a sarcastic usage, first being recorded only about fifty years after the first appearance of the word in English.
I may be wrong but if I had to guess I’d say you are a man. I suspect you have not had to take all the precautions that women do every day , as a matter of course, like putting your shoes on, to protect against the possiblity of some kind of assault by men, ( including verbal ‘banter’).
Only when you have lived in that circumstance can you hope to understand
their perspective. The system does not protect women or prosecute men for this type of behaviour so in effect, endorses it, while at the same time advising women to wear modest clothing, stick with friends, don’t drink too much , walk home alone etc……… acknowedging the real danger they face. The whole tone of your comment is dismissive and it helps nothing to deny that there is a problem with the way in which men treat women and girls ( and often other men ). Naming the problem is step one in any process that seeks change. Why not start with that ?