To play Devil's Advocate a little...
Whilst I find Mr Bradley morally reprehensible...and if the 19 year old girl was my daughter, or sister then I'd happily stone the bugger to death... perhaps we are allowing a moralistic view to overshadow a couple of things.
Yes, I too am not comfortable about such people being allowed within the trade, but legally, he has done nothing wrong. Using the "fit and proper" test in this instance would, I believe, leave councillors looking down both barrels of a successful legal challenge. Maybe it is the law/rules/bylaws etc that we should
all be attacking and making much stronger in areas such as this, so that potential penalties are known by all and that they WILL be pursued! (in a similar way to how teachers of mature students, or even doctors & therapists etc can not be involved with clients or will be struck off).
If we use moral rules instead of legal ones...what then becomes acceptable? 25 years old for a 19 year old? 40 years old for a 28 year old. Are the rules different for single people than people cheating on their partners like Bradley? Should drivers carry a breathalyser to determine whether a person is below the legal sex/alcohol limit...and get a legal contract signed?
No, of course not! But let's get the rules changed first, so that we can then punish people like Bradley, rather than put the cart before the horse.
We are also treating the 19 year old as if she was a 14 year old, plied with rohypnol...and treating Bradley like a catholic priest who's laid a trail of sweets into the church for local kids to follow. Despite her age, she may have been a strong instigator of the events (and no, that doesn't make Bradley's lack of self-control right). I'll bet we have all seen examples of what our "innocent late-teenagers" get up to in our towns and cities every week (the rise in STI's within this age range, particularly amongst students, tells its own story).
Unlike the claims that some here on TDO make, I have found opportunities "on a plate" in this job are very rare indeed (though that could be down to my appearance!
). However, I do remember being left gobsmacked a few years ago, by a very pretty YOUNG girl who looked to have been around age 16, 17 tops (God knows how she got served alcohol), who after two of her friends had been dropped off, leaving her and one other, asking me to come back to her place after I'd dropped her friend off. I thought it was a wind up at first, but it certainly wasn't! (For the record, I was shocked, turned in to a stuttering teenager myself and politely declined the offer...but many wouldn't have!).
If the girl who had sex with Bradley were to have been raped as she claimed (or if she had agreed to sex, but was under the age of consent), then he should have...and hopefully would have...been jailed, but as, according to the jury's verdict, he was someone who (WRONGLY!) gave into a legal temptation, then maybe removing his livelihood was a step too far. After all...then it would be the state (i.e. US!!!) that would be paying for his estranged family, that have hopefully had the sense to tell him to f**k off for good.
Also, if alcohol is at least partly responsible, perhaps the pubs and clubs should FINALLY be taken to task for serving the bloody stuff to people who have already had too much (as many pavement, cab floor and hospital emergency dept can testify!!!).
Just an alternative viewpoint ladies and gents (possibly a hypocritical one, as I've already collected up a few rocks and half-bricks and have been trying to find Bradley on google streetview!)
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She's probably after a free ride and he is just plain stupid
