In English at school, we are currently studying the Leigh Leigh case. For those of you who don't know of this case, I'll give a brief summary.
On the 8th of November in 1989 at Newcastle, NSW (Australia) a 14 year old girl named Leigh Leigh and her friends were invited to a 16th birthday party with the sole intention of being taken advantage of. Leigh was raped, kicked, spat upon, raped again, strangled and bashed to death with a 6kg block of concrete. Even though evidence shows there were 10 offenders, only 3 were charged.
1) Matthew Webster charged for murder (sentence: 14 years)
2) Guy Wilson charged for assault (sentence: 6 months)
3) "NC1" (unnamed) charged for carnal knowledge (sentence: 100 hours of community service).
I think the reason we are studying this dreadful case in English is because of the different text types used, and you also study film techniques and there is a movie entitled "Blackrock" based on the Leigh Leigh case, and we are going through the movie and picking out lighting, film effects etc.
For those of you who don't know, I'm heavily into the insight of crime. Not the actual crimes taking place, but sort of the CSI things - solving cases, psychology and finding out the things that the person went through. Awful, I know. I guess I'm just fascinated by the ingenuity some people go through to commit the "perfect crime".
Because of the above fact, I started researching the Leigh Leigh case on the internet, looking for it in vertical files, simply boosting my knowledge on the incident.
My teacher is scared.
She questioned us on certain events that took place, and because of the hours of looking through sites and files I was able to answer all the questions she asked.
After class she pulled me aside and asked me how I knew so much. I told her that I was just fascinated with the crime side of things and how I studied the case because, like I said, I was fascinated with it.
My teacher thinks it isn't normal for someone to enjoy crime, and as a result sent me to the school welfare counsellor.
He picked at me for over an hour, finally coming to the conclusion that I should seek "psychiatric help".
I've been forced to see the welfare counsellor three times in the past week. When I try to be clever and not turn up, he gets someone from school service to pull me out of class.
Do any of you think it's fair?
I personally think I'm not meant to be singled out just for studying something I find interesting. It's not as if I'm getting ideas to commit the "perfect crime" myself, or renting blood-thirsty videos and sit half an inch away from the TV screen and cheer on the murderer.
My parents don't know that I've been to the school counsellor, they just know that I studied the case out of pure interest and fascination of how people could be so harsh as to do that to somebody. They understand that, because my Oma and Opa were exactly the same.
So... what are your thoughts on this?
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