“He was a confused, messed up little boy.”
Except he wasn’t a confused, messed up little boy because he’s still a confused, messed up big boy and there’s not really any sign of him slowing down any time soon.
Last night in the Dale, the subject of Lachlan’s sexual assault of Alicia when he was 14-years-old came up.
The teenager had taken advantage of Alicia’s kindness and attacked her, seemingly believing that the two of them were in a relationship.
An indisputably negative situation.
However, yesterday Rebecca tried to make excuses for Lachlan, saying that he was just confused and messed up when he assaulted Alicia and that everything was pretty much OK now and everyone should just get over it.
Right, so.
This came after Priya admitted that she was afraid Lachlan was going to attack her too.
And although Lachlan was actually planning to confront Priya because he thought she had seen him attempt to murder Freddie, her fear was still justified and should have been treated accordingly.
Sure look, this is telly.
Doesn’t mean people have to be happy about consent being glossed over so blatantly though… and spoilers: they weren’t.
I lost my anger a long time ago but I do think it would be beneficial for emmerdale to confront an ongoing problem they seem to have with consent. Saying Lachlan was confused when he clearly knew what he was doing was an insult to Alicia.
— Vanessa Booty (@Vanessabooty1) June 26, 2018
Someone just get rid of Lachlan. I can't stand Rebecca either because of what she did to Robron after everything that Aaron and Robert have been through together. Belle needs to wake up and see that she is dating a twisted psycho who has killed and hurt people.
— J (@EmeraldAngel147) June 26, 2018
Cannot BELIEVE I've just witnessed Rebecca potentially victim blame Priya, calling her 'obscenely drunk' and defending sex offender Lachlan, when Rebecca HERSELF took advantage of a drunk man. How disgusting. Ugh. #Emmerdale
— 🇵🇸 Claudia Boleyn MA🌹Sapphic🌹she/her (@ClaudiaBoleyn) June 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/History62152749/status/1011359046635589632
#emmerdale gosh lachlan and rebecca are just the worst on this show. I rather they had died n kept chrissie and lawerence . I'm ready for the whole white family to leave lol
— Michael (@Mikeyrich1122) June 25, 2018
