Girls Forced to Defend Themselves as Police Charge Victims Instead of Adult Predator
The day Scotland chose to prosecute a 14-year-old Instead of her immigrant adult stalker
In a shocking display of misplaced priorities, Scottish police have charged a 14-year-old girl with weapons possession after she was forced to defend herself and a 12-year-old friend from an adult man who was harassing and following them on a Dundee street.
On Saturday, August 24, 2025, two young girls found themselves in a terrifying situation on St Ann Lane in Dundee's Lochee area when an adult man began following and filming them. The encounter escalated to the point where the 14-year-old felt compelled to arm herself with an axe and knife to protect herself and the younger child.
Rather than arresting the adult who created this threatening situation, Police Scotland charged the teenage victim with possession of a bladed weapon.
The Disturbing Reality
Video footage of the incident shows two clearly distressed children confronting a grown man who is filming them. The audio captures the girls' terror and desperation as they plead with the man to leave them alone, with one shouting "Don't f’ing touch her, she's f’ing 12."
The person recording can be heard speaking with a heavily foreign (Middle Eastern/Indian/*stani) accent, directing the situation and telling the girl to "show the knife." This is not the behavior of an innocent bystander; this is predatory behavior directed at children.
The fact that these children felt they had no choice but to arm themselves speaks to the genuine threat they perceived. Children do not grab weapons unless they are truly frightened for their safety.
A System That Protects Predators Over Children
The police response to this incident reveals a disturbing inversion of justice. While confirming that "no adults were arrested or charged," authorities moved swiftly to prosecute the child who defended herself and her friend.
This grotesque misallocation of police resources becomes even more glaring when contrasted with recent UK policing priorities. British police have deployed undercover female officers as joggers to catch men guilty of "catcalling" - sending women out specifically to entrap men for verbal harassment. Meanwhile, when children are actually threatened with physical and sexual assault, requiring them to arm themselves for protection, those same authorities charge the victims and ignore the predators.
Let that sink in: police have resources and willingness to prosecute men for inappropriate comments to adult women, but no capacity to arrest adults who terrorize children to the point they need weapons for self-defense.
This sends a chilling message about societal priorities: verbal harassment of adult women merits undercover operations and prosecution, while actual threats to children result in... charging the children.
The 14-year-old girl now faces the trauma of court proceedings on top of whatever psychological damage was inflicted by the original encounter. Meanwhile, the adult who created this situation walks free - apparently less concerning to authorities than men who make crude comments to joggers.
The Broader Pattern and Moral Failure
This case is part of a troubling pattern where authorities appear more concerned with maintaining social harmony than protecting children. It echoes the catastrophic failures seen in Rotherham, Rochdale, and other grooming gang scandals where officials prioritized avoiding accusations of racism over stopping the systematic abuse of children.
We must be clear about our moral priorities: failing to protect children from sexual assault and grooming is a far worse moral failing than any concerns about prejudice or community relations. When institutions consistently subordinate child safety to other social or political considerations, they commit the gravest moral error possible.
The tragic reality is that legitimate concerns about discrimination have been weaponized to justify inaction in the face of child sexual abuse. Officials worry more about being called racist than about stopping predators. This represents a catastrophic inversion of moral priorities that has enabled countless children to be harmed.
When children are forced to take desperate measures to protect themselves from adults, the focus should be on what drove them to that point, not on punishing them for their survival instincts. The fact that no bystanders intervened to help these children also reflects a community that has been conditioned to look the other way when certain uncomfortable situations arise.
What Should Have Happened
Any competent investigation should have immediately focused on:
Why an adult man was following and filming children
What his intentions were in continuing to pursue them despite their obvious distress
Whether this represents part of a pattern of predatory behavior
How to support the traumatized children
Instead, the system has re-victimized children who were already in distress.
The Real Crime
The real crime here isn't a frightened teenager picking up weapons to defend herself and a younger child. The real crime is a system that fails to protect children and then punishes them when they're forced to protect themselves.
These girls should be receiving counseling and support, not criminal charges. The adult whose predatory behavior created this situation should be facing investigation and consequences.
When our institutions fail children this badly, we shouldn't be surprised when people lose faith in the system's ability to protect the innocent and hold the guilty accountable.
This case demands immediate review and a complete reversal of priorities, one that puts child safety first and holds adults accountable for creating situations where children feel they must arm themselves to survive.