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1,200 paedophiles arrested

000

09:29 / 19.12.02

"By Stewart Tendler, Crime Correspondent
LONDON TIMES ONLINE

December 18, 2002

MORE than 1,200 teachers, doctors, care workers and policemen have been arrested across the United Kingdom in raids against paedophiles who had used an American internet service.
Forty children have been taken into care because they have been abused or there are fears that they might be at risk from parents or professional workers." Link

Bless. As Laila says, those who are there to teach, help and protect us, turn out to be the most dangerous of all, those who prey on our children.

bio k9

09:38 / 19.12.02

Maybe Laila should throw a "sometimes" onto the front of that statement.

Saveloy

10:00 / 19.12.02

Yeah, or add "...and arrest paedophiles" to the end. I presume it was the police who did the arresting here?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:30 / 19.12.02

Yeah, I mean, surely that means that WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 1,200 OF THEM absolutely no teachers, doctors, care workers or policemen have been arrested.

Of course, it sucks that people with these motives can get into these positions of power- but it doesn't follow that just because people are in these positions, they wanna fuck kids. That logic goes beyond mere generalisation.

The Natural Way

11:38 / 19.12.02

I imagine Laila's arranging the NONCEBUST! party even as we speak.

grant

14:23 / 19.12.02

Still... isn't 1,200 a statistically significant sample?
I don't know how big the population is to compare it with.

How many teachers, policemen, etc., ARE there in the UK?

I'm also getting increasingly wary of pedophile arrests... sometimes the porn in question isn't little kids or anything, but mature 17 year olds out to make a buck (or being exploited by the industry, but still...). I worked a kiddie porn story once, and had a lot of trouble telling the difference between the girls in the seized Dutch mags and, say, the college cuties in Playboy.
But that's a digression.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

11:36 / 20.12.02

Well, at a ratio of one child to 30 nonces it's clear that the bloke who got chucked into jail for attacking Danielle Jones was spoilt and didn't want to share his toy.

And I'm sure Laila will be keeping an eye on this story to let us know how many of these people don't get charged with anything.

Lionheart

14:06 / 20.12.02

I'm quoting from the article:

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Carole Howlett, who is heading Scotland Yard investigations and a national police spokesman on paedophile use of the internet, said that the entire list of 7,000 would be completely investigated within nine months. So far only Northumbria, Lincolnshire and Durham have begun investigations of their entire lists of suspects.

So 1,200 out of 7,000.

One thing that bothers me about the article is that it's inflammatory. I'll give an example...

One man arrested in London last week had 12 computers, 2,530 CDs, 518 floppy discs, 55 videos and 99 films, all of which are now being scanned by police for possible child pornography.

When you first read this paragraph it seems that the man had 12 computers, 2,530 cds, 518 disks, 55 videos and 99 films of child pornography. But that's not true. These things are being scanned for child pornography but it's not true that they all contain it.

000

14:21 / 20.12.02

Stoatie: Of course, it sucks that people with these motives can get into these positions of power- but it doesn't follow that just because people are in these positions, they wanna fuck kids. That logic goes beyond mere generalisation.

Of course, of course, but look at it from the other side -- unless we were reminded of how, sometimes, it can be easy for grown men to abuse the positions as qouted above, nobody would know these things existed.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

15:37 / 20.12.02

I'm wary of any arrest, to be honest, especially massive ones.

I do not trust those in power in any way to look out for my good, so when I see pedophiles being arrested,. I suspect it. If they are, sure arrest them, through them throw the pointless processing machine that is the justice system, but keep them from hurting childen.

BUT I do not think it is the children that are being saved here, because frankly it never is. I wonder what prompted these arrests and who these people are... other than police-identifiued pedophiles.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:18 / 20.12.02

Bendt Chrome Of course, of course, but look at it from the other side -- unless we were reminded of how, sometimes, it can be easy for grown men to abuse the positions as qouted above, nobody would know these things existed.

Pah, I think this is all a smokescreen for the real guilty party... women! I mean, if they want a child to abuse, they can just have one, they can even go to a sperm bank, thus cutting out the necessity of having a man to watch over them and make sure they don't get up to any funny business. You'll see, it's the women, you can't trust them!

000

17:54 / 20.12.02

*Yawn*

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