I like and follow the Kate Price threads but don't post there too much. I was never happy with the fundraiser. I initially came to this site for the Jack Monroe threads so I am wise to scammers. At the very least it's a grift - if the the money is going where they say it is, this is allowing them to have luxuries they otherwise couldn't afford with this ongoing battle. Such as the Louboutins and what looks like a fur coat. If that's the case, they are within their rights but it's pretty crass when you're begging from strangers.
Also, we have no idea who Kieran and Michelle are behind closed doors - Katie Price is terrible and Bunny and Jett were evidently better off with their dad at least in terms of basic needs being met like food, schooling, etc. But we don't know them or the family at all so I am cautious about interfering in the lives of total strangers.
The above poster's theory that a certain regular KP thread poster is Michelle herself sounds bang on the money. This poster is always outright soliciting donations, and tempting the paypigs that it's soon! The kids are nearly back! Just keep pushing and we'll get there! Things are going in the right direction! And you're helping so much! They're so grateful! Yet the kids have been away from Kieran for about 18 months now. The excuse is that Kieran is doing everything by the book. It makes more sense that he's actually
not doing everything in his power.
There was a lot of bitching on the last KP thread about two-faced posters and thinking that some dual thread members deserve to get in trouble. But you really can't give unpopular opinions on there (I have seen this on other threads by the way, and even on other forums) and it's unspoken forum culture to not behave disruptively against the main ethos of a thread by appearing contrary. It's seen as disrespectful. But it seems that's no longer the case, because keeping it to
this thread is now two-faced and shit-stirring! The one good thing is that I'm now aware there are active threads on Kieran, I had never found them before and assumed they were dead.
It's unbelievable how Kieran and Michelle's fans have totally lost their minds now that Michelle has been exposed as not a total saint. I had noticed the black and white good vs evil on there before, literally anyone who Katie is against is treated as the second coming and it's not the done thing to criticise them at all. That includes Peter Andre and his wife, and Kieran and Michelle. People act like they're faultless. And now Carl Woods. They used to think he was evil and complicit (or even participant) in child neglect/abuse and Katie's crimes, and they didn't believe he even liked her and was just with her for his own nefarious benefits. Now the moment he's publicly turned against her, they think he was a lovestruck puppy manipulated by her and are even saying he's handsome, and he's being treated as a Professor Snape style turns-out-to-be-a-goodie type of character.
Meanwhile anyone associated with Katie Price is treated as pure evil and worthy of contempt. Most notably her new boyfriend is being ripped to shreds as ugly, gormless and unmanly - mainly because there's no evidence (yet) of any wrongdoing or controversy whatsoever, so all there is to attack is his appearance. FWIW I think he's totally normal looking.
Now that Michelle has been seen exhibiting distinctly un-Jesus-like behaviour, her fans have gone into overdrive to justify what she has done, inventing things with zero evidence. It's the kid's fault; everyone does it sometimes; it wasn't that bad; the video is fake and edited; Michelle would have apologised afterwards; it's a set-up by Katie Price and her cronies; the
real wrongdoer is whoever leaked the video and are fully deserving of criminal punishment.
The victim blaming of the children for Michelle's bad behaviour is horrific. All kinds of scenarios are being invented - based on poster's own experiences of throwing food in anger - for what the kids supposedly did to provoke Michelle to throw the pudding at 7 year old Bunny on her bed. The thing is we have zero evidence the kids did anything wrong at all (and even if they did, they don't deserve that, especially as children with a traumatic background).
I do concur that the video is not enough to determine that Michelle is abusive, but at the same time we actually have no evidence to definitively say that this was
not abuse and you could just as easily invent scenarios to make the short video tie in with child abuse. For example, Bunny blaming Jett is classic for how abusers make kids scapegoat each other. Jett saying he's starving could be seen that food is being weaponised by withholding it. Jett saying he hates this house fits that this a longer-term problem making him unhappy, rather than a one-off incident. The kids running scared into their room shows they are intimidated by Michelle.
The evidence fits that - as the leaker stated - Kieran filmed this himself and sent it to an affair partner. We know he likely
did have an affair, and none of Katie or her pals would have access to the kids' bedroom in Kieran and Michelle's house. This is almost completely ignored by K&M fans. If Kieran has set up CCTV in his house, that would imply he wanted to catch something - and catch it he did. So it makes sense that this is beyond a one-off incident of a mum at the end of her tether.
Also I totally understand why an ally of Katie's would leak this. The same desperation to help these poor children that has led mugs to parting with £16,000 to get them back to Kieran, could also lead to someone who truly believes Katie to
prevent these children going back to him if they believe that Michelle is abusive.
Imagine you have a friend and she's about to lose her kids to the dad and stepmum she says are abusive - and she has CCTV proof to back it up. You can understand them doing anything to try to save those children. I actually think it's the right thing to do because their neglect and misery has already been broadcast to the world from one side (so what's so bad about one more video?), and this shows that things are not all rosy on the other side and it might be a frying pan and fire situation. There is a public fundraiser that is supposed to be directly influencing the outcome of these children's custody, so people need to know the whole story.
I'm another one who believes all of the Fathers4Justice allegations. They are nuts and a horrible organisation, but they have been going a very long time and wouldn't risk saying something that they ultimately can't prove. I also think they are experiencing the same desperation to rescue the children that we all feel. It's enough to drive you to despair. Imagine knowing that small children have been subjected to sexual abuse by Katie Price, and having to watch and know that absolutely nothing is being done about it. I wouldn't do it myself, but I understand how someone can conclude that violating children's privacy by revealing their sexual abuse is the lesser evil than not doing everything in your power to stop them being sexually abused. They were totally wrong to do it but I understand how they came to that point. Then knowing that their dad is actually fine with leaving them with her 50% of the time, yet is happily benefitting from an ongoing fundraiser for full custody. I can see why F4J lost their shit.
On the note of sexual abuse, given these accusations I think it's doubly wrong that Kieran continues to do very public sex work. I'm not going to be politically correct about it, sex work is not normal work. These are already children who have a terrible role model in their mother in terms of work ethic, and who are growing up allegedly having their boundaries obliterated by her. Now on top of that, they're got their dad shoving dildos up his arse and sucking the juice off for money. What kind of message is that sending to his children? Jett will secondary school age in September. There's no way they won't see these clips at some point, and be bullied for it. For this alone Kieran is selfish and not a good dad. He should just get a normal job. I think Kieran enjoys the ego trip of men finding him sexy too much.
So glad to get all this off my chest!
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They would need to investigate to see if it was a scam. We reported one that supposedly was set up to benefit one of our charity fundraisers and never received a penny. GFM were not interested, nor were the police.
There's no chance of that unfortunately. One only needs to peruse the Jack Monroe threads to see that the police and media have zero interest in this type of fraud. Jack Monroe has scammed tens of thousands of pounds in this manner, and hundreds of thousands from other types of fraud.
I think the media are loathe to expose people they have supported for many years, because it shows them up as inaccurate fools and untrustworthy news sources. Meanwhile, the police simply do not bother to prosecute or investigate the majority of crimes, and charity fundraising scams are no exception.