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Comment on 24-01-2013 11:46:20 by mistajohn #754649
First up, apologies for not responding sooner. I don't often check out the WSC pages. Regarding the Mboyo piece, I first wrote it three years ago (www.belgofoot.be/pele-mboyo-takes-the-road-less-travelled/) on my blog. The focus was on the story of someone who had served a prison sentence and then became a professional footballer because of the 'football in prison' programme. Now no longer funded. When he was called up for the national team, I thought this was worthy of mention again and WSC agreed to put it in the website. I did not mention the nature of the crime because I did not know it at the time. Should I have checked? Possibly, but my interest was in the rehabilitation rather than in the crime itself. He was a teenager without a job when the horrendous crime was committed. Should he therefore have been banned from any paid work or just professional football? So, to sum up, had I known about the rape, I like to think I would still have written the piece with the same conclusion. Otherwise, what is prison for?
John

Posted By: SCC 28, Feb 3, 10:25:23