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Title: A sick way to tackle child abuse
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Published: Feb 7, 2007
Author: Allison Pearson
Post Date: 2007-02-17 15:17:17 by robin
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Well, that's a helpful association to plant in a small child's head, isn't it? Strange man tries to put his hands down your pants, you cry, the police come along, then the strange man buys you a present. With respect, that's not a legal judgment, Your Honour - it's the answer to a paedophile's dreams. And they wonder why the public has more faith in the Tooth Fairy than in the criminal justice system. Judge Hall, 67, refused to jail Eric Cole justifying his decision by saying this paedophile 'needs help' and that he will only get it outside prison. (Why is there no such help inside jail?) Instead of the long sentence he deserved, Cole, 71, was given a sexual offences prevention order, making it illegal for him to be alone with a child, and he has to attend a sexual offenders' programme. A sex offenders' programme is a bit like one of those courses that helps smokers quit. Unfortunately, paedophiles are not addicted to nicotine; they are addicted to children. And they will go to extraordinary lengths to get their fix. Just look at this week's stomach-churning case of the three internet creeps who planned in grotesque detail the abduction and rape of two 'sweeties'. I can't be the only person who wishes she hadn't lived to hear the term 'incest chatroom'. Those particular ghouls were jailed, thank goodness, but many judges still seem incapable of grasping what they are up against. Why else would they treat sex offenders as though they were capable of rehabilitation? Even the Home Office's own research reveals a terrifying probability of paedophiles reoffending. Yet a high-risk sex offender will be visited by his police minder for a cup of tea and a biccy only every three to six months. Supervision is so lax that a prevention order is next to useless. You might as well put a 'No Bees' notice in front of a herbaceous border. Yesterday, John Reid came up with another plan to 'protect our children'. He suggested that paedophiles should register their e-mail addresses and an alarm will alert the authorities if they visit websites where they can groom minors. Does the Home Secretary really not know how easy it is to get multiple aliases online? The new technology is a playground for paedophiles. And a playground, as we know, is their idea of heaven. When British Telecom called for paedophiles to be banned from using the internet in 2004, objections were raised on 'human rights grounds'. Can someone please tell me what rights a man who rapes toddlers should enjoy? A woman police constable who monitors child abusers recently told a Sunday newspaper: "Some of these offenders have done things so horrible and dangerous that, if the public knew they were out and walking round the streets, there would be uproar." And indeed there should be. Instead, we have complacent, elderly judges who seem to think that all a little girl needs to make up for the loss of her innocence is a shiny new bike.
Poster Comment: Someone needs to investigate Judge Julian Hall.
A sick way to tackle child abuse
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Makes me wonder if the judge isn't some sort of perv...
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