This story is growing weirder by the minute isn't it?
Yesterday dear reader I said we must wait and see what happens next but has happened is that Craig Meehan, Shannon Matthew’s 22 year old stepfather has been charges with 11 charges of possessing 140 indecent images of children.
This is not your family snaps of the kidlets in the bath is it? No one has 140 of these?
The rumours can now be put to rest as to why Shannon was not returned to her mother and stepfather – The police would have had a clear idea that they had Craig in their headlights and they not wish to return Shannon home while they feared her safety.
He has not been charged with harming Shannon or any one of her brothers or sisters.
So the official bits are this: Two computers were taken from the family home in Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor and on these computers were the 140 indecent images. Today Meehan was taken to Dewsbury magistrates court where the charges were read out. No application for bail was made as Meehan apparently has no home to go too? Yes, it seems Karen Matthews has booted him out and told a friend to go and get rid of all of his things from the house she shared for five years with him. Meehan was then taken from the dock, flanked by two security guards, and remanded in custody till April 11 to appear in the same court.
He didn’t say much – just what he had too and wore his black Man Utd football shirt with Ronaldo on the back. Family and friends packed the court to listen to the charges and see how he reacted which was completely unemotionally.
I don’t know what to say on this matter to be honest? The whole affair stuns me and horrifies me in equal measures.
Karen Matthews has apparently had the opportunity to see her daughter once since she was returned until yesterday. This has led to the rumour that the family was being watched by social services and Child protection officers in West Yorkshire were “actively considering” taking Shannon Matthews into care days before the nine-year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped. Is this true or elaborate media speculation from ‘a source’ who is really the aunt of a friend of a sister of the doctor of the
hairdresser of the daughter of the cleaning lady’s mother?
When will this end for Shannon? And what support is being offered for Karen Matthews? A woman with seven kids from five fathers needs help and I don’t mean that in a patronizing way and I KEEP SAYING IT! Karen Matthew's parents don’t give a s*t and are not taking any responsibility for the men their daughter chooses and they should get out of their glass house and start being parents. It is never too late.
Good Luck Karen Matthews. Julie Bushby, the loud mouthed supportive friend of the family and Chair of the Tenants Association, (a woman after my own heart!) has said that Karen has spent some time with Shannon yesterday:"She spent three-and-a-half hours with her, I don't know where."
Yesterday dear reader I said we must wait and see what happens next but has happened is that Craig Meehan, Shannon Matthew’s 22 year old stepfather has been charges with 11 charges of possessing 140 indecent images of children.
This is not your family snaps of the kidlets in the bath is it? No one has 140 of these?
The rumours can now be put to rest as to why Shannon was not returned to her mother and stepfather – The police would have had a clear idea that they had Craig in their headlights and they not wish to return Shannon home while they feared her safety.
He has not been charged with harming Shannon or any one of her brothers or sisters.
So the official bits are this: Two computers were taken from the family home in Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor and on these computers were the 140 indecent images. Today Meehan was taken to Dewsbury magistrates court where the charges were read out. No application for bail was made as Meehan apparently has no home to go too? Yes, it seems Karen Matthews has booted him out and told a friend to go and get rid of all of his things from the house she shared for five years with him. Meehan was then taken from the dock, flanked by two security guards, and remanded in custody till April 11 to appear in the same court.
He didn’t say much – just what he had too and wore his black Man Utd football shirt with Ronaldo on the back. Family and friends packed the court to listen to the charges and see how he reacted which was completely unemotionally.
I don’t know what to say on this matter to be honest? The whole affair stuns me and horrifies me in equal measures.
Karen Matthews has apparently had the opportunity to see her daughter once since she was returned until yesterday. This has led to the rumour that the family was being watched by social services and Child protection officers in West Yorkshire were “actively considering” taking Shannon Matthews into care days before the nine-year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped. Is this true or elaborate media speculation from ‘a source’ who is really the aunt of a friend of a sister of the doctor of the
hairdresser of the daughter of the cleaning lady’s mother?When will this end for Shannon? And what support is being offered for Karen Matthews? A woman with seven kids from five fathers needs help and I don’t mean that in a patronizing way and I KEEP SAYING IT! Karen Matthew's parents don’t give a s*t and are not taking any responsibility for the men their daughter chooses and they should get out of their glass house and start being parents. It is never too late.
Good Luck Karen Matthews. Julie Bushby, the loud mouthed supportive friend of the family and Chair of the Tenants Association, (a woman after my own heart!) has said that Karen has spent some time with Shannon yesterday:"She spent three-and-a-half hours with her, I don't know where."
"Obviously like any mother she was absolutely over the moon that she actually got the contact. They could have cancelled the contact over what came out yesterday but they didn't, which was absolutely brilliant." Julie added that Karen Matthews was "not really bearing up at all" and said: "Yesterday was very hard for Karen because she was dealing with happiness and was obviously peeved off."
She continued: "There's more tears than laughter. At the moment she's laughing with me when she's talking about Shannon but when she sees it come up on the news there's tears."
HOORAY! About time but now we are hearing about Meehan we can all put those pieces together and stop adding them up to 4563. Karen Matthews is not a child abuser, just someone who needs to realise that sh
e can be a great mum if only some who are very close around her, would stop knocking her confidence. She needs to rebuild her life, undestand that maybe the man she was living with was not who she thought he was and get on with looking after the kids she has with her. This is an almighty battle for her and I don't know how she is supposed to deal with it when the media are still on her doorstep? Leave her alone and give her a break.
Don't know what else to say today because there are so many Karen Matthews in this country and so many estates like the ones Shannon comes from. That is the sadness of all this.
And What about Shannon?
HOORAY! About time but now we are hearing about Meehan we can all put those pieces together and stop adding them up to 4563. Karen Matthews is not a child abuser, just someone who needs to realise that sh
e can be a great mum if only some who are very close around her, would stop knocking her confidence. She needs to rebuild her life, undestand that maybe the man she was living with was not who she thought he was and get on with looking after the kids she has with her. This is an almighty battle for her and I don't know how she is supposed to deal with it when the media are still on her doorstep? Leave her alone and give her a break.Don't know what else to say today because there are so many Karen Matthews in this country and so many estates like the ones Shannon comes from. That is the sadness of all this.
And What about Shannon?
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