The madness continues: the girl’s teacher is now her “companion”
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March 23, 2014 at 12:02am
Times of Malta reports about the teacher who drove one of his pupils, aged 15, to Dingli Cliffs and jumped off with her.
Cliffs tragedy: Girl’s funeral postponed, police won’t rule out action against COMPANION
The police are not ruling out taking action against the injured man who was found next to the body of a 15-year-old girl at the foot of Dingli Cliffs.
Actor and drama teacher Erin Tanti, 23, who was airlifted from the scene and is being treated at the hospital’s intensive therapy unit, is under constant police watch.
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I’m semantically confused. Would this be companion as in “boyfriend” or companion as in “person she was with at the time”?
HPB, No you’re not. The country has lost it!
Hi Daphne,
I’m not saying you are wrong in what you are posting.
All I want to ask is, don’t you think that with Erin, being as emotionally distressed as Lisa (which still doesn’t justify his actions, don’t get me wrong) maybe requires mental help rather than being treated as a killer?
[Daphne – I have just said exactly that. If he was emotionally distressed, as you put it, he should not have been put in charge of children. You will notice that I did not say he should be imprisoned, but that he should be incarcerated in a mental asylum.]
That is actually a reasonable point. I apologise if I misread your articles. I was thinking you were showing him off as a psychotic killer.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we see this teacher on some TV programme like Xarabank with the presenter posing silly questions, and appealing for a presidential pardon for the “victim”, to the applause of a hired stupid audience who in turn will get a free pizza after the show.
“Here we have a clear case of two lovers the modern version of Romeo and Juliette…”
I thought they were at Dingli Cliffs at 16.00 not at 04.00.
[Daphne – So did I, until I read what the police had said, in TVM’s report. That makes it so much worse. It means that he really didn’t take her there for a drive.]
I am even inclined to think that the girl did NOT jump off the cliff, but could instead have been trying to get away from the pervert (yes, even if she went there willingly with him in the first place), and lost her footing in the dark. It has happened before.
As for him? Why would he have locked his car if he intended jumping off the cliff? It just doesn’t make sense.
I am not in any way trying to defend the ruddy pervert here, especially since he was a teacher of the girl in question, but everyone has assumed that the girl committed suicide, when there is no actual proof of that. Insisting that is was “suicide” may leave her family with worse guilty feelings than had it been accidental death (in which case the teacher would still be guilty of taking her to Dingli Cliffs in the first place, whether or not that is a crime on paper).
I’m not sure I’ve explained myself well, but I think that everyone should give the poor child the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps she did die accidentally, rather than intentionally, although neither case would excuse the teacher being with her and having driven her there.
As a parent I expect schools to run a thorough background check on the persons in whose care our children are being entrusted to.
Both schools where this man was employed have a lot to answer to. It is insane that he was let anywhere near children. Because that was what Lisa Marie was, a child. To depict them as two friends is only to diminish the severity of what has happened here.
The madness will end when a certain double-barreled surname wielding bridge-troll stops making harmful slanderous comments on her dumbass blog.
Totally agree. She is so rude as to question your parenting if you don’t agree with her alas, she thinks she knows it all miskina. Needs to really get a life. And she talks of Erin being a pervert and at the same time the way she answers Lisa’s 15 year-old friends on her blog is really scary, she seems to be the pervert here, these friends are also passing through a very difficult time and she shouldn’t answer them in the way she does.
[Daphne – Are you a parent? I’m shocked. Your comments read like those of a child, in content and grammar and the fact that you address 15-year-olds like this one as your equal. Also, you have no idea of the etiquette of commenting on blogs like this. It is not Facebook or a newspaper comments-board. You do not enter into a direct discussion with another commenter talking rudely about your host as ‘she’ as though I am not in the room and moderating your comments for upload.
The way I talk to the 15-year-olds commenting here is exactly the way they need to be spoken to, though this clearly is a revelation to you with your stupid ideas of parents being ‘friends’ with their children and going down to their level by talking and thinking like 15-year-olds themselves. Are you by any chance consoling your daughter about ‘what happened to Erin’, rather than blasting the bastard to hell and making sure you put him to her as an example of men who should be avoided at all costs? You’re talking about a man who kept a girl your daughter’s age out all night while her family were looking for her, a man who drove her to Dingli Cliffs at 4am. Are you insane? Amazing, isn’t it, how we need a licence to drive but no licence to raise children.
‘She is so rude as to question your parenting’ – it’s not rudeness. It’s bluntness, and it’s the result of shock and astonishment at the moral disorder of people like you, who look at a situation like this and can’t see the horror of what this man did, “because I like him”.]
My grammar is very good thank you very much, who are you, a university lecturer of English or something? . What about your English? It’s rubbish, you can’t even write good English. You’re the one talking like a child my goodness. Get a grip on your life is it so boring that you spend all your time spewing venom at a computer. We parents are the ones who are shocked, By your comments at such a tragedy. My goodness it’s only yourself you are shaming. And my daughter doesn’t befriend her teachers ok? You are speaking to the wrong parent there. let the police do their job, it’s not yours
Correct me if I’m wrong but if this man was the minor’s companion is this not a case of pedophilia according to the law?
If Times of Malta do not want pedophilia to be implied, they should consider changing the title as the word ‘companion’ can be ambiguous even though it is generally accepted as implying romantic involvement.
Why aren’t u posting my responses anymore u stupid cunt? R u fed up of what I’m saying,just like in fed up of the shit youre making up for your own amusement? Let me tell you this u sick bitch and you can print it if u want, if god forbid something ever happens to my kids and u write some made up shit about them,just so that yr moron loyal fans can say” yes Daphne,you hit the nail on the head there” without even knowing who they r talking about, you wont live to see an other day! I’m not telling u this cos in a bully or cos i think I’m above the law, i actually think the law shouldn’t let you post this shit in the first place, but what I’m saying is that id rather be reading about yr death behind bars, rather than reading made up stuff written by some cheap trash about my children, when u wouldn’t know what u talkin about u sick whore! U r amazingly clever, u have the ability to answer back to all of the replies that don’t agree with what u write, my god, its amazing. Now feel free to correct me DARLING, i hope you wont find too many mistakes in my grammer, but i do hope you understand what the message is you sick bastard
[Daphne – As a parent, and alert to some highly visible signs of extreme distress in your communication, I have seriously considered releasing your IP number to the police with instructions that I wish to know nothing further about the matter or even know who you are, but that they should trace your identity immediately and alert your parents to your state of distress. This is possible because you are a minor. But I have decided against it. In my experience, many parents do not wish to know about their children’s problems, either because they have too many themselves or because they don’t wish to disturb their self-delusion of perfection in their household, so instead they round on the messenger in a state of denial and I will become the evil witch who reported their son or daughter to the police, missing the point that I did no such thing and that I am worried about your emotional state. You are clearly another of this man’s psychological victims and there is no telling what might happen to you at this stage. He should certainly be barred from any contact with you after his release from hospital. I urge you to talk to one of your parents or any adult family member about the way you are feeling. ]
My god u r really starting to worry me now dear. I dont know which part of my statement you read that made u think I’m his student. Oh wait a minute, thats right, cos in not taking yr side, i must be his student then eh? U r an even bigger moron than i though, posting only stuff that u want ppl to see, and making it a point to answer everyone who doesn’t agree with u in a bitchy way, my god youre making me piss myself really! Who gives u d authority to write made up shit about other ppl’s private business is beyond me. U r making up stuff on ppl, yet u have the nerve to say you’ll go to police bla bla bla…what a stupid moron u r! Who ever doesn’t agree with you, you have to give a lecture to y theyre wrong and youre right. Just because some ppl said he’s a great teacher u say its worrying. Its u who needs help u mental bitch assuming d worst on someone who u don’t know from Adam. Go to hell ugly witch! Dont forget to answer me dear with yr all so informative way, a real ppl’s person u r!
[Daphne – “I dont know which part of my statement you read that made u think I’m his student.” It is possible to infer a fact from other facts. Your manner of communicating indicates clearly that you are a school-boy or school-girl, I’d say 14 or 15. This means that the only possible way you could know this 23-year-old teacher so well and feel so involved with him is if he is your brother, possibly your close cousin (no evidence of that) or your teacher, either at school or at Masquerade. If, however, I am wrong about your age, as inferred from your communication style, and you are actually an adult, then speak to your GP for reference to a counsellor or psychologist. And this is serious advice, not a trite remark.]
Jonny is getting free, valuable advice and yet he keeps insulting you.
Daphne your patience with this type of trash is rather incredible.
Oh my God Ms Caruana Galizia it is you who needs to see a psychologist. Stop butting your nose and filthy mouth into a story as sensitive as this, it’s really none of your business.
[Daphne – Actually, it is. It is a public interest issue. A teacher who drives his 15-year-old pupil to Dingli Cliffs at 4am and either pushes her off the edge, falling with her in the struggle, or jumps with her, so that she dies, is a matter of public interest. With your manifest lack of intelligence, you are unable to understand the ramifications of what has happened here, and why it is now a matter of public interest, so I suggest you stick to your duties as a mother, and sit your daughter down, and explain to her carefully why men like Erin Stewart Tanti are bad and dangerous and why he should never have been a teacher. You could also add that when, in a couple of years time, she begins meeting men like him in a social context, she should immediately identify them as to be avoided at all costs. You could also explain to her that men like Stewart Tanti, who are unduly preoccupied with women’s genitals as objects of fixation rather than normal sexual interest, are to be given a wide berth. You could also show her that photograph he has on his Facebook page, with him sitting next to a friend snorting or pretending to snort cocaine, and explain to her why he is setting an appalling example and why snorting cocaine is both illegal and dangerous. I do not expect you to thank me for giving you some basic instruction in parenting, for the simple reason that I do not believe you are a parent but yet another 15-year-old masquerading as one. Quite frankly, I wish I could ring all your mothers right now, but if past experience is anything to go by, they’re probably as useless as you are and will round on me instead.]
Are you for real? What about YOUR parenting skills? What makes you think you’re a brilliant example to give advice? What are your qualifications? What about you as a mum? What example are you giving your kids with this stupid blog> How does my parenting or others’ in the school come into it now? By the way all parents there are respectable professional people and won;t take too kindly to you phoning them to give them your lovely advice, many thnks for the offer. They have a life to live unlike you. Taking care of their kids. You don’t know anything so shut up.
[Daphne – You are quite hysterical. Find a paper bag and breath into it. And then try speaking like an adult (“You don’t know anything so shut up”…). The reason I have no children to raise is because I’ve raised them already. They’re grown men, in their late 20s. Not all 49-year-olds have school-age children, you know. And rest assured that at 23 they weren’t throwing girls off cliffs at 4am while living with and off their parents. ‘Taking care of their kids’ isn’t a life, and that’s just the problem. Because so many Maltese women turn it into a life, locked into and onto their children, those children develop all kinds of neuroses and the result is the mess we’ve got now. You can’t even have a proper rational discussion – how are your children supposed to know how to have one? These things are learned at home.]
I am starting to get confused as to whether Johnny is in fact a male or another vulnerable 15 year old girl.
The judgement between releasing the IP number to the police in order to avoid another tragedy and turning your back to the whole issue is no easy matter and takes great courage either way.
I’ve read through all the comments and I can’t believe what I’m reading!
Johnny, you are definitely no more than 15; the fact that you need to use vulgar language in every statement you type, goes to show that you think you sound like an adult. Well a word of advice – it doesn’t make you an adult it makes you sound like a low life.
The fact that you don’t understand what’s wrong with this situation – teacher and pupil getting close – goes to show that whoever raised you failed to instil values and principles in you and the school failed to teach you what the code of conduct is towards your teachers and theirs towards you.
As for the comment of ‘Parent’, well I am an actual parent and my children go to that same school, so DAMN RIGHT that it is my and other people’s business to know what on earth is going on.
Why people are not grasping the full gravity of the situation is beyond me. A DRAMA TEACHER was clearly having some sort of inappropriate relationship with his pupil. He led this poor naive girl to confide in him, when he is neither a counsellor nor a PSE teacher but A DRAMA TEACHER, and his aims and intentions were highly suspect.
If actual parents can’t see the gravity of this story, then I seriously pity you and the children who are being raised by you. Parents like ‘Parent’ are the reason children think like ‘Johnny’.