📝 AITAH for stopping talking to a friend because he shook the hands of a sex offender

By Evening_Accident1487 • Score: 1 • April 26, 2025 6:59 AM


local midlands charity in the UK that feeds the community and they have a boxing gym.I met their star boxer let's call him senior. we got on great and I must admit I had a big crush on him. I wouldn't act upon it because I had wanted to do the street feed since I first saw them years ago.

The star boxer was working outreach in the local area to help reduce the knife crime around my local area. He had said I should bring my son to their boxing gym to train in a safe place. (like hell it's a safe place but I didn't know this at the time.) I took my son and saw I could help clean the place up because it was kinda a gross smelling gym. so I volunteered cleaning and doing the street feeds. I like helping the local people with food anyways so this was perfect for me and my son loved boxing so it seemed like a win.

while my son boxed there were other families and I got to know one girl from one of the families. Let's call her Stacey. Stacey came from a very big family and helped train the kids she even volunteered for the boxing gym and worked for the local council through the charity. So Stacey's step dad, let's call him Jarome, used the gym too and was always with the kids. it turns out he's a wrong un.

So for background I like to do things charitable but also political. I'm known for protesting and I was on the BBC midlands today about the right to review cases in the midlands not being taken seriously. in that segment I spoke out about my sexual abuse I'd experiences and the police not reviewing the cases.

Stacey had been r***ed by jarome and he had hurt her. She went to the police and her college and told the charity. Senior said he would be there for her whatever she needed.

The guy who runs the gym, let's call him Bops, said if I was gonna help her (or my other friend who doesn't do charity work and the protest we'll call her Lucy) we could use the gym.

Stacey came to me saying her mom was making her drop the charges and it was clear that she didn't want to do this and she expressed she was scared. I said Lucy and I would meet her and planned to meet her at the gym to get her safe.

Somebody tried to say Stacey had asked for it so I left and I was called in for a meeting by the two admin women. Let's call them karons (they both have the same name). they only sat me down and was saying they were worried this girl was taking advantage of me and was living about what had happened to her they told me that jarome would still be able to use there gym because they said it was like every other gym (but it isn't minors are allowed in there and they do half with vulnerable kid don't even ask about their HAf programme because I don't know how they get away with having it I've volunteered for them for that too and I promise no one watching them kids in the gym at times and it can be accessed by the public)

he has bail conditions not to be around under 18. I stopped working for them and took my son straight out of their boxing gym and cut ties. At first I didn't talk to anyone or I would have got mad and I didn't think it was fair. Then I talked to Senior because I found out that they did in fact let Jarome, the sex offender in their gym, Senior even shook the guys hand.

so aitah for going mad when he kept trying to talk to me and then messaging me online about the fact that the one thing Stacey needed wasn't to lose absolutely everything. the gym was the only thing she had left her mom has taken her bf side and skipped all of Stacey's belongings and he shook the guys hand that took her life away for her?

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