This man's been dead for how long? Dear God PLEASE give me a life sometime soon...
Anyway, those links say that Rose came to live with them in 1889. Maria testified in court to events that occurred, regarding Rose, in 1893. That would make Rose give or take, 18 years old.
The inappropriateness of this behavior I think was multitudinous:
What was the legal age for women back then, was it 21?
Was this appropriate behavior, for Russell, toward a young woman to whom he was committed to care and be responsible for (if he was)
And what stood out fo rme, if you carefully read teh transcript, that there may have been far more to testify to than what she did, but she was only allowed to go back as far as 1893 and also only what she personally saw and heard. Such is the way with some legal proceedings, the good stuff gets left out.
And finally, although Maria didn't produce Rose Ball to authenticate her statements, neither did Russell deny them and/or produce Rose Ball to deny them. I personally get the feeling that if Russell had tried to deny the allegations, Rose Ball would have been there in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
I have trouble tremembering what I have to do when I get up in the morning, and this jellyfish story is almost ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
Ho Hum, just another day in cucltdom....
BEFORE YOU TRY AND REMOVE THE STICK FROM MY ARSE, REMOVE THE TELEPHONE POLE FROM YOUR OWN ARSE.
