Digambar Kamat (Goa’s Chief Minister) has been reported as saying:
She (Fiona McKeown) left a minor girl in someone else’s custody. Tourists should be more responsible and careful.
When he was interviewed today regarding the tragic death of Scarlett Keeling.
I would be the first to lambast a woman who had been truly negligent. Indeed I would be actively blogging here and posting it wherever I could - but has this numpty never heard of babysitters? Fiona McKeown may be a lot of things, but from everything that I have read I genuinely believe that she left Scarlett with people that she trusted. Adults that she trusted. Friends.
This old fashioned view of the world that means that a woman should be with her children 100% of the day does not reflect the society that we live in, nor do I believe that it is one that has ever existed!
The Chief Minister is embarassed (rightly so) about the global attention on his country for its’ apparent ineptitude with regard to finding and prosecuting the perpatrator of this most henious of crimes, and so has started to fling mud at Fiona in the hope that some of it will stick long enough to take the pressure of him and his Government.
Is Fiona blameless? Almost certainly not. Is she TO blame. Absolutely not.
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Would she be referred to social services if she did the same thing in Britain. Yes. Like the McCanns.
Almost - depends on whether or not the adults could be considered as babysitters or not. Having said that the admittance that her daughter was sleeping with one of those “babysitters” doesn’t exactly help her case.
I am just not convinced that this warrants the type of comments that are being made about her.
Yes she is in the wrong in part - but not being blameless is not the same as being to blame…
WTF is going on over there in India?
How is Fiona not negligent??????? This was a 15 YEAR OLD left alone in a foreign country. There is no excuse. None. And yes, teenagers are one of life’s greatest challenges, but this woman’s neglect defies some of the most basic instincts of human beings, to protect those you love. And then there is the matter of her maternal instinct………or her complete lack of it once her brood reaches a certain age.
As far as I can establish, Scarlett was not alone. She was in the care of adults that Fiona trusted - just like a baby sitter at home…
In Devon, the family, themselves were involved in cultivating and distributing drugs…Hence funding for Goa trip.
Third-world country, men and young western women equals “bad news”.
I don’t think that there has been any evidence that this is true - but in any event are you suggesting that Scarlett deserved to be raped and murdered by locals?
No suggestion that “anybody”, who ever they may be, should be murdered in any manner whatsoever. My point is, ’tis best to err upon the side of caution, being a female of the species, within and without of your own environment. It is just as it ever was.
Without exposing our kids to new things they will learn only what is already known.
The judgement is whether or not they SHOULD learn those new things…