What would you do??

[4getmenot]

My mum asked a good question the other night which I thought I'd ask on here. After watching corrie and Deidre knowimng what Tracey had done, if you were in that situation and knew your child had commited a bad crime would you lie for them or tell the truth?

[warpig3]

Difficult question 4getmenot, I don't have kids so have no concept of the mother/child bond. I think I would tell the truth as in this scenario it is someones life and murder, however that is hypothetical in my case. I suppose that if I lied then my life would be ruined by guilt and Tracey (given her personality) wouldn;t give a damn. Think people should atone for their crimes.

[ummmm]

Presuming it's not a regular occurrence. I would lie through my teeth for my kids.

[warpig3]

ummmm, even if it was murder?

[4getmenot]

really ummmm. even if the person killed didnt deserve it or you child was a peodophile or a terrorist?? and Pa__ul did it make you think twice?

[ummmm]

Oh no 4get.....I wasn't thinking along them lines. When you said 'bad crime' I was thinking bad...not digusting and evil.

[4getmenot]

what would you call a bad crime that you'd lie for them for. I did use the coronation street storyline as an example

[4getmenot]

Yes very good idea of your mums its just a shame they cant be that efficient with real crimes Pa__ul

[OBonio]

What did she do?

[warpig3]

she murdered her boyfriend with 'malice aforethought', meanwhile trying to make out to everyone that he was beating and abusing her, which he wasn't.

[Octavius]

You are changing the parameters of the original scenario, in the context of neck-exploding-chain-smoking-panic-attacking-melodramatic-wine-swigging Deirdre, Chazza was a nasty wee blighter in their eyes so the Street was better off without him.

In reality, if the situation was as per Soapland (one off etc) I would do as Deirdre, with a bit of rage a la Mount Vesuvius (Ken) but ultimately defend my child to the hilt. In context of paedophilia or rape etc, I would consider that society would be better off without them causing consistent harm to vulnerable individuals.

[4getmenot]

but he never did Tracy any harm, lots of men cheat but you wouldnt want them killed.

[warpig3]

I don;t think anyone is suggesting he was an angel, but Tracey planned his demise and executed it, not quite the same as manslaughter or there is that french phrase which completely excapes me for the moment.

To defent ones child is one thing but to lie under oath when you know that they murdered someone, I think that is entirely different.

[ELVIS68]

If I had a duaghter who was a b!tch like her, then yes, lock her up

[warpig3]

Crime of passion, thats what I was think of, but don't know it in french.

[Octavius]

not chance-medlee ?

[warpig3]

Don't know Octavius, what does that mean. crime of passion was what I was trying to think of but perhaps that is the incorrect phrase. Somewhere at the back of my mind i thought that in France if it was a crime of passion then you could get 'off' with it.

[Octavius]

It's an old term in English law for a form of homicide arising out of a sudden affray or quarrel. Although this was clearly pre-meditated.