Yet again the law is being an ***! Options

[Guest_Bill1_*]

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article...articleID=11390

Oh well never mind what he's done, after all as long as he's held down a high level job and had a family then what's the problem with a little pre-teen porn action eh?

[Alfred Einstein]

1 It could be your little daughter on the Internet.

Sure. Could be. An evil trade run by evil people - people who couldn't give a toss one way or the other what happens to Colin Flett of Baydon. These are the people for whom prison sentences would be appropriate.

What the guy did is wrong. He's been shamed by by. He's been totally humiliated by it. But he hasn't actually done anything to anyone. He hasn't directly harmed children, and he's now, rightly, on a sex offenders list.

I think some perspective is needed here. There's a difference between downloading pictures and actually going out and molesting children. Is there an indication that he will ever molest children? No more than suggesting anyone who downloads pornography is a rapist, surely?

It's all well and good ranting and raving and getting on a moral high-horse about this, but some perspective is needed surely? The guy downloading this stuff may well need watching, as he will now be, but the people uploading the stuff are where resources need to be directed.