Getsme
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You do realise these type of things happen to ordinary people every single day of the week, most for committing crimes far less serious than that of Ched Evans. He isn’t being victimised here at all, just because he served his time doesn’t mean people are going to forget what he did. Why should a Club take a risk on him if it means that they will lose fans, sponsorship and other royalties?Yes they are, or at least they are doing their level best to stop them.
I think it's disgraceful how he's being treated to be honest, whether he is guilty or not. Assuming for one moment that he is guilty, the laws of the land as implemented by the courts have seen him sentenced, do his time and be released. The judge didn't impose any special restrictions saying he must not work in football for a period of xyz years, or indeed at all. So what these protesters are in fact saying is "we didn't like the sentence, so we'd like to impose our own more stringent sentence instead". Well what if those protesters were in favour of capital punishment for rape convictions? Would it be OK to decided now to round up a lynch mob and have him killed? No of course it wouldn't, and in the same way it is not right to seek to force others to make his punishment worse than that which the law intended.
And just imagine for one moment that perhaps this man is actually innocent? We don't have capital punishment in this country, in large part because we recognise that people are found guilty beyond reasonable doubt. But not beyond ALL doubt, and sometimes our courts get it wrong.
It doesn’t matter if you or I think he is innocent, he has been found guilty, therefore until proven otherwise he will be a known convicted rapist, Evans is NOT the victim here, and quite frankly I’m surprised people are showing him so much sympathy.
Rape is one of the most hideous crimes that have lifetime lasting effects on the victim and their families, why should Evans be treated different to any average Joe on the street who commits this vile act.