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ben-ja-menGOLD Member
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Ive just read about the proposals to execute pedophiles. I did a search and I did see [Old link] but the discussion on that thread is a bit all over the place. So id like to direct it a little bit more and ask people to adhere to the following underlying assumptions that if need discussion should be put in another thread



1. The pedophile has been found guilty from irrefutable evidence (ie found photos of the pedophile performing the act or whatever, such that their is no doubt they are guilty)

2. The prison system does not rehabilitate inmates

3. Chemical castration is not 100% preventative (ie it doesn't address the psychological disorders that cause some pedophiles to want to hurt children)

4. The mental health system is currently overloaded with many patents not receiving the care they need (ie there are lots of cracks for pedophiles to fall through if they where to be put into treatment)

5. Pedophiles are often released early from jail after only serving a few years



So assuming that the above statements 2-5 are unlikely to change and statement 1 is true do you think that pedophiles should continue to be sentenced to short jail terms and then allowed back into the community or should they receive the death penalty for the consequences of their actions or is their another realistic option?

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Wild ChildSILVER Member
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Which you're doing very well - and thank you biggrin

And ditto to your last paragragh - that's pretty much where i am too. Is it cowardice or being squeamish? I don't know, i don't think so because I would fight passionately any move to (re-)introduce the death penalty.

shrug

Still want to string the censored 's up by their balls tho! ubblol What Meeko Kiddo said about them being Bubba's byatch - now that would be sweet justice. They would know in some small part the terror, fear, loathing and pain they'd inflicted on their victims, to the end of their days.

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FireTomStargazer
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Yupp, I side that. Thanks for the clarification.

I dislike pondering about "what if's" (especially when it comes to crime involving my child) - and it must be the hardest if you're confronted with this human garbage every day. Must make you feel helpless, therefore I do have compassion for your angle.

But my stance on death penalty in general remains and I would like to focus more on alternatives and curing the reasons, rather than elaborating on the effects...

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The Tea FairySILVER Member
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But what are the reasons? I think to change a person's behaviour it is really vital to know their motivations. What motivates someone to commit these crimes? I am fairly sure some people who have sexual feelings about children know it is wrong and manage to keep it firmly in the realm of fantasy and never commit any crimes against children, but what causes someone to cross that line?

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Wild ChildSILVER Member
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Lack of respect!! They lose the ability to recognise that their own desires do NOT come before other people's right to safety, health and happiness.

That's widespread in every area of modern western life (OMG I'm getting old and doing that 'it wasn't like that in my day' thing eek ubblol ) but the logical extension of that selfishness is that they don't see why (or lose the will to see why) they should deny thmeselves their gratification.

There is no such thing as freedom - discuss!

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FireTomStargazer
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Paedophile ring busted

 Written by: news

LONDON - A team of international investigators infiltrated an Internet chat room used by pedophiles who streamed live videos of children being raped, rescuing 31 children and identifying more than 700 suspects worldwide.

Undercover officers in Britain, the U.S., Canada and Australia busted up the pedophile ring using surveillance techniques more commonly associated with fighting terrorism and organized crime.

The chat room, which was called "Kids the Light of Our Lives," featured images, including live videos, of children — some only months old — being subjected to horrific sexual abuse, said Jim Gamble, chief executive of Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center.

"You could go and if you were in the club, arrange a time and a place when online you could view a child being raped and brutalized in real time," he said.

Police analyzed images and videos traded by the chat room's members for the smallest clues that could help them identify, locate and rescue the victims.

More than 15 children were found in Britain, Gamble said, declining to give further details. A Canadian official said authorities there arrested 24 Canadians and rescued seven Canadian children as part of the probe. Four people have been arrested in Australia, including one who was previously convicted of child pornography charges, officials said Tuesday.

Describing it as "a massive leap forward," Gamble said the investigation involved agencies from 35 countries. Investigators made the case public after the sentencing of ringleader Timothy David Martyn Cox on Monday.

Cox, 27, was given an indeterminate jail sentence, meaning he will remain in prison until authorities decide he is no longer a threat to children. One of his accomplices, Gordon Mackintosh, has pleaded guilty to 27 charges of making, possessing and distributing indecent images and videos. He is awaiting sentencing.



Yes, it's sometimes REALLY hard NOT to support the death penalty... censored mad2 censored spank "indeterminate jail sentence" - I hope they never determine.

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Wild ChildSILVER Member
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ditto - and a big cheer and hug for the poor investigators who've had to endure looking at this crap and had to deal with these filthy beasts.

Interesting the article points out the 'surveillance techniques more commonly associated with fighting terrorism and organized crime.' Shouldn't they be as good if not better?

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I believe that the comment about the anti terrorist techniques is supposed to illustrate the fact that they are "better", and these techniques are being used more widley nowadays in order to help catch peadophiles, drug runners and organised crime. Before the police did their thing their way and other agencys did things different ways.

Thats in part due to the millitary, police and all the other internantional oraganisations (ica fbi mi5 interpol etc) all working much more closley together in order to catch people as lots of crime is proven to be inter-related. (High drug use leading to increases in petty crime, smuggling arms drugs people etc). Ergo reduction in one area of crime leads to reduction in overall crime across the board.

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Wild ChildSILVER Member
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Sorry - that's what I meant - ie why is the use of superior methods not normal in child abuse investigations, as it is for terrorism?

It's great it has been in this case, and also that the various agencies are co-operating more - it's always astounded me that there isn't a british police Force, but forces, a collection of vollages rather than a sophisticated fully-linked city shrug

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https://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/stor...3A21%3A06%3A053


dirty b*stard!!! spank people like this deserve to be raped by prisoners and beaten up by the public angry

darkness-beforeGOLD Member
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Oh sorry wild child, yeah its not usual cus previously nobody wanted to share the sneaky beaky spying secrets. Nobody wanted the other guys to play with there toys either, but nowadys its A- cheaper thanks to internet secure elctronic communicatoins etc B-people have bigger budgets and C- they realised that if they all play nice together everybody benifits.

Anti terrorrist stuff and the millitary in general esspecially in the USA has a phenominal budget. I mean BILLIONS. Its only recently that our civil budget has been allowed/been able to afford the technology training and techniques.

As for the police thing umm pass. Good idea though. It is slowly getting more that way with national crime databases etc but theres a lot of resistance from the public against cops being able to pull up any info on anyody in the country. Nobody complains when MI5 do it cus they don't have to let anybody know ubblol

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Groovy_DreamSILVER Member
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 Written by: Wild Child


Lack of respect!! They lose the ability to recognise that their own desires do NOT come before other people's right to safety, health and happiness.

That's widespread in every area of modern western life (OMG I'm getting old and doing that 'it wasn't like that in my day' thing eek ubblol ) but the logical extension of that selfishness is that they don't see why (or lose the will to see why) they should deny thmeselves their gratification.

There is no such thing as freedom - discuss!



As far as i know, peadophiles think that what they do is perfectally natural, that children really are sexual beings and that the rest of society has the wrong attitude.

You're saying that they do know it's wrong, but do it anyway, by fighting with their conscience. This is what sane people who commit crimes do; peadophiles are not sane. Peadophelia isn't a reflection of the general selfishness in society, it's more of a type of delusion.

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Surely the existance of online kiddie porn rings is a good thing, because it provides an easy way for cops to track them down, hopefully before they do any real damage, in real life.

Why would they shut the ring down? They had control over the situation. They could have kept it a secret that it had been busted, then run the operation from his house, and convict each and every member of the porn ring as soon as they got enough info.

faith enfireBRONZE Member
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Posted:
hmmm
I know that some of them feel that way, but I was under the impression that they knew it was wrong, and it was generally more of a compulsion. I've seen stories where they would ask to be chemically castrated. We had one in our area who was upset because the only place to live was legally too close to a school. He didn't want to be that close
I think it is the really evil ones that think it is alright
IMO only

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FireTomStargazer
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Whooopsie...

Taken from: BBC News

 Written by: BBC


Last Updated: Friday, 15 June 2007, 13:15 GMT 14:15 UK

Aborigine child sex abuse 'rife'

Many aboriginal communities suffer from severe poverty
A high-profile inquiry into child sex abuse in remote northern Australia says it found cases in every Aborigine community researchers visited.


The report, commissioned by the Northern Territory government, also found a "disturbing" trend in child-on-child abuse.

Investigators said high levels of alcohol and poverty were to blame.

Australia's Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough described the findings as a "national disgrace".

"It's a disaster and it's something that should never happen in this country," he said.

The Northern Territory's government - which commissioned the inquiry after allegations of similar cases were reported in the media last year - said it would begin implementing some of the report's 97 recommendations.

'Landmark report'

The report's authors said they had found incidents of child sex abuse in each of the 45 communities they visited as part of their inquiry.

One alarming finding was that young children were being exposed to pornography and imitating the sexual behaviour among themselves, they said.

The 316-report report found that children were being abused by both indigenous and non-indigenous adults.

Children as young as five were found to have contracted sexually-transmitted diseases.

Girls were being prostituted for drugs - including for petrol, a substance reported to be commonly sniffed by youths in Aboriginal communities.

Co-author of the report, Pat Anderson, a well-known Aboriginal health specialist, said there was a strong link between the abuse and the alcoholism that is rife in many indigenous communities.

"A river of grog is killing people and destroying our communities," she said.

"Spiritually, socially, psychologically, there is a total breakdown in families where people are drunk most of the time - the children are not safe."

Northern Territory's Chief Minister Clare Martin described the report as a "landmark", and said it would "sadly expose the great pain and unhappiness of many people".

"It is clear that not enough has been done to tackle the abuse of Aboriginal children," she said, adding that the government would begin implementing the report's key areas of action.

The recommendations include improving education services, appointing a children's commissioner, greater co-operation with the police and awareness-raising campaigns on issues such as pornography, alcohol and gambling.

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SethisBRONZE Member
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Wondering if anyone else is curious about the lack of distinction (legally) between actual assaults and viewing child porn?

On the one hand, the people MAKING the porn are breaking the law and committing attacks on children and deserve to be punished. That's not in doubt.

But just because you watch something doesn't mean you have any inclination to partake in it yourself. Watching a film like "Hostel" doesn't make me want to cut people up and kill them. Is it right that the people who do watch are punished to more or less the same extent as the creators?

After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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SethisBRONZE Member
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And on another point, if the child porn was entirely digitally constructed with no real children involved at any stage, should watching it be punishable?

After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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The Tea FairySILVER Member
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That's quite an interesting point. To the first (should people who watch it be punished as much as those who create it?) I'd be inclined to answer yes - it's their demand to watch this stuff that gives it value, more demand generally = more supply, in any market, so the people who watch it are an integral part of the industry as a whole. It's got nothing to do with wether or not the people watching it will be 'influenced' to commit the same acts, it's about supply and demand.

Digital construction... I'm still inclined to think 'yes' because it's just wrong... but I do see your point that nobody actually gets hurt... but I still think showing those kinds of images, real or not, acts as a kind of confirmation for SOME people that paedophilia/molesting children is ok, or at least acceptable in some circles, or that it's possible to get away with it...

I'm not sure if the comparison with Hostel quite works, I know what you're trying to get across, people aren't stupid and don't just copy what they see in films. Violent films do not automatically incite people to commit violent acts. But your talking about the movies, entertainment for mass audiences - what about films like snuff movies, or the films of beheadings on the internet, where real people suffer and die? When presented in the right way, these can encourage some (possibly already deranged) people to try and simulate the violent acts... but that's not the point, even if nobody is influenced to commit the same acts, the films still depict a massive disrespect for human life (IMO) that is not present in films like Hostel and horror films, because with violence in the movies there is always a story, a context, a conventional way of filming and a shared understanding that the suffering and death is not 'real'.

I'm not sure if that last paragraph made sense... I'm kind of thinking over the issues as I write! I do see your point though Sethis.

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FireTomStargazer
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Sethis, nice to have you with a rather interesting post.

Tea Fairy - demand creates supply creates demand... I side you on that one. But are you not contradicting yourself by what you are saying?

Why is there a difference between horror and splatter and child pornography? The only reason why ppl think that splatter or horror movies are "okay" is because they think that they are staged. Would it be different if they would be real? And if so, why?

There have been psychological studies who prove that the mind does not necessarily distinct between images and memories. The past has shown that ppl who indulge on splatter and horror movies do have a lowered inhibition threshold - IMO the same applies to (child) pornography.

As I understand it, the law is there to protect those who cannot defend themselves, to protect the sheep from the wolves, to protect the weak.

I said that a few posts/ pages before: how can we accept an entire industry to utilize children as (sexual) objects (by fake or real), how can we accept parents to dress up their children like prostitutes and at the same time condemn perpetrators? How much of a hypocrisy is that?

This is not about a "few derailed individuals" - but even if it was - is it that much of a sacrifice to renounce such movies or advertisements or procedures? Or is it about "regulation" only...

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Posted:
 Written by: The Tea Fairy


it's their demand to watch this stuff that gives it value, more demand generally = more supply, in any market, so the people who watch it are an integral part of the industry as a whole.



Going by that logic, should we not punish drug users to the same degree as dealers? What about guns? I'm not questioning what you've said, I'm wondering why the Law seems to punish viewers of child porn more than any other "user" of an illegal substance or object, where the harsher punishments tend to be meted out to the dealers.

 Written by: The Tea Fairy


but I still think showing those kinds of images, real or not, acts as a kind of confirmation for SOME people that paedophilia/molesting children is ok, or at least acceptable in some circles, or that it's possible to get away with it...



For a time in Ancient Eqypt and Greece, sex with children was considered quite the fashion among the rich. In other cultures it was a part of everyday life and "normal". Is something inherently wrong just because the society of the time says it is?

Note I don't condone any form of child abuse/molestation, I just like giving people things to think about wink

After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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The Tea FairySILVER Member
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Agree with both your points. I don't understand why the laws are the way they are either, at least in the UK. If they did want to eradicate certain behaviours, say drug use, then it would make sense to inflict harsh punishments on users as well as dealers... in the UK, I'm guessing this would just lead to too many people being criminalised for the justice system to handle.

Not all countries do punish users of child porn more severely than users of other illegal objects/substances... I'm fairly sure some countries in Asia give out the death penalty for possession of illegal drugs, but don't necessarily have strict laws relating to child pornography or child abuse.

I had also been thinking about the last point you made, but couldn't think of an eloquent enough way to put it. Just because society says something is 'wrong' doesn't make it inherently so (this was the core theme of my anthropology degree! How we come to make sense of the world around us and generally how our culture/society will dictate the 'rules' we can adopt. I wasn't allowed to think in terms of what's 'right' and 'wrong' - there are so many shades of grey). I was thinking how in the UK maybe 50 - 60+ years ago, before the gay rights movement, a lot of people would have seen homosexuality as 'wrong' or 'evil', but now it is accepted.

I'm saying that looking at child porn is 'wrong' because that's the rules of the society I live in. However, I have thought about the issue, so I'd hope that even if I was living in a society where it happened every day, all around me and was seen as perfectly normal, I'd still feel that it was wrong... because I think children have a right to be protected from harm (physically, emotionally and psychologically), as they cannot protect themselves.

However, when I look into it and ask myself why I think this way, it still stems from the rules of my society, it's the same argument that forms the basis for the age of consent laws...

Taken from Wikipedia:

'The general moral philosophy behind age of consent laws is the assumed need for the protection of minors. It is a common belief in many societies that minors below a certain age lack the maturity and/or life experience to fully understand the ramifications of engaging in sexual acts. These fears may include but are not limited to resulting pregnancies and psychological or physical damage. There is an ongoing debate in many cultures regarding child sexuality as it relates to age and an appropriate age of consent.[1] It is these debates that have informed the various laws in different jurisdictions and account for their disparity. Different cultures regard minors engaging in sexual activity as anything from normal to deviant behavior in need of correction.'

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