PREDATORS, WHETHER ONLINE OR IN REAL LIFE SHOULD NEVER BE PROTECTED.

Dear Rattlers,

As you would all know it takes courage to stand up and blow the whistle on anyone, especially someone you know is liked and admired by many people. However, when that person is shown to be a total bastard who uses his wiles to lure vulnerable women into situations where he can seriously hurt them, and I find out about it, I will speak up. Whether that predator is online or in my own family, I would not remain silent and protect him or her.

What I did not want to do was disclose the identity of Lord Voo's hapless and foolish victim, as I felt she may have suffered enough for her stupidity. However, when I saw the comments posted onto my blog post that could only have come from Mitsuk, which were largely convoluted ramblings from a demented woman, who crossed the line by mentioning my children, she left me with no choice. Nothing she said has any basis in fact. For instance my daughter has never been married at all, much less to a Muslim. But to bring my children into her sordid little affair at all caused me to take off my gloves and expose her.

When I came on line today I had 120 IM's as a result of the blog post, Vooronica's Closet. All of them supportive, and a number from people who don't usually agree with me on much, but did in this case. No decent person would shield and protect any kind of predator. To do so enables the person to offend time and time again.

In Mitsuk's rage that I was exposing 'her man' who still controls her, she lashed out with a barrage of largely distorted information mixed in with a few truths that had been shared with her when we were friends.

There is nothing in my online life of which I am ashamed, and none of the very nice men I have shared private moments with have left me with anything but the sweetest memories. They were straight with me, no lies, no bullshit and this was reciprocated. We remain friends today, and some of the despicable lies Mitsuk said about these men, whom she knows nothing about, shows what a vile person she really is.

I feel no shame whatsoever that I have had internet relationships. None of the people were predators from whom I left my partner, without as much as a name. Nor have I ever enticed anyone to leave their partner. In fact "are you married" is my first question, the answer determines where we go from there. If I had ever fallen foul to a predator like Lord Voo I would have been thoroughly humiliated at my own gullibility, but I would also have tried to warn other women. I would not sit in his chat room watching him flirt with other women and talk of other conquests. Perhaps Mitsuk is cruel enough to want to see other women suffer as she did, I don't have that in me.

With regard to Mistuk's last remark that I am a "slut" that is NO insult to a woman of nearly 59, and I hope I will still be called that when I am 79! But I am a very private slut, one man at a time. I don't sit on the internet while my husband is at work planning to leave him for a man whose name I don't know and then after he breaks my heart into little pieces, attack another woman who exposes him. Mitsuk get some therapy.