Loving dad's year of torment [View all]

Some 300 people are enjoying hot summer days at McKee Domain near Ruby Bay as a father is at the playground with his daughters.

It is a classic Kiwi setting, with happy campers, barbecues and children playing.

Then comes something out of place, a police constable asking questions. The idyllic illusion is shattered.

Strangers claim to have seen the man, in broad daylight, behaving inappropriately with a girl.

The campers report this to the reserve caretaker who informs the police.

The allegations include kissing, rubbing her bottom and allowing the 10-year-old to rub his thigh and chest.

The flabbergasted man says he didn't do anything wrong, the daughter named as his victim says he didn't, and his wife says he didn't.

They cannot be identified for legal reasons although they would be happy to be.

The father said even as the constable questioned him at the campground, one of the three daughters jumped up and kissed him, and poked her finger through a small hole in his shirt saying "tickle, tickle".

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7903165/Loving-dads-year-of-torment

Is there any chance a mother would be the center of a year long investigation, a trial and so forth for playing with her child in public? Of course not. The very notion is absurd.

Which makes this yet another example of how the Patriarchy is willing to dedicate more money and resources to addressing male issues than women's issues. A woman would have simply been ignored. As if she weren't a real person or that her crimes didn't matter. Whereas the Patriarchy happily dedicates vast resources to the issue when men are involved because that's all the Patriarchy cares about. There's even a fair chance this guy could have been given free housing and food for the next 10-20 years, courtesy of the Patriarchy.

I say it's time for this unfair allocation of resources to end!