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With regard to the national register the Isle of Wight Parents Action Group would like to see a register in place that would use national insurance numbers and photographs alongside the names and addresses. We would like absolute guarantees that all the relevant bodies involved would have the proper funding and trained officers to implement the sex offender's register fully.
We would like to see all youth organisations obtain certificates of clearance for any adult before that adult embarks on any contact with children, whether the organisation is paid or voluntary.
Ideally this would run alongside a system guaranteeing that schools and residents will be warned of paedophiles/ child sex offenders moving into the area.
We are not asking for names and photographs to be issued to all and sundry but with the above guarantee, we believe that parents, grandparents aunts and uncles etc. will be able to act accordingly and sensibly with regard to childrens safety from paedophiles / child sex offenders ie; avoiding a particular street,feeling that all possible precautions have been taken to insure that a convicted abuser is not running the local youth football club etc.
We want the Government to give this nation some credibility and stop hiding behind the word "vigilante".
The Government is provoking vigilante behaviour by ignoring public demand for this procedure.
Our campaign will end when all satisfactory precautions are taken and not before.
We would like to see a permanent form of electronic tagging on release from prison as part of the sentence (the more severe the crime the longer the tagging) as statistics show a high percentage of paedophiles / child sex offenders go on to re-offend after release.
Many paedophiles / child sex offenders have themselves stated that this is the case.
With regards to accommodating paedophiles / child sex offenders in council and housing association properties, we ask the question "would you give a known drug addict a flat above a pharmacy and not expect him to break in?"
Then "why house paedophiles / child sex offenders in areas so densely populated with children and expect us to believe that they will not be tempted to re-offend?" .
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SEX OFFENDERS ACT 1997
For the last few weeks we have been studying the Sex Offenders Act 1997 and hopefully you will all find the following useful.
Part 1 of the Sex Offenders Act is all about the Sex Offenders register. It states that it imposes a requirement on offenders convicted or cautioned for specified sex offences to notify the police of their name and address and any change to these details. (This also applies to those who commit such offences and are found not guilty by reason of insanity or unfit to plead). It goes on to say that the purpose of this is to ensure that the information on sex offenders on the police national computer will be kept fully up to date.
The question we would like to ask is how many on the Island has done their duty and registered their name on the sex offender's register then moved on without further notifying the police. We are well aware on the Isle of Wight that the sex offenders that we know are regularly changing their addresses. (We wonder why?).
You might be interested in the following. Lets hope that our new Home secretary will get around to changing them and making it LAW that they are on the sex offenders register for life.
PERIOD OF REGISTRATION
Sentence Notification Period
Life Imprisonment Indefinite
Admitted to a hospital subject to a restriction order Indefinite
30 months or more imprisonment Indefinite
Imprisonment for less than 30 months but more Than 6 months 10 years6 months or less imprisonment 7 years
Admitted to hospital not subject to a restriction order 7 years
Non - Custodial sentence (including guardianship under the
Mental Health Act 1983) or caution 5 years
The notification period starts from the date of conviction or caution.
The sex offender must also notify the police of the following details within 14 days.
a) Name (and all other names used)
b) Home address
c) Date of birth
Also he must notify any change of name or address within 14 days. Failure to register without reasonable excuse within 14 days can result in a fine of up to �5000 and/or a prison sentence up to sic months. (We cannot recall hearing or reading of any of the sex offenders that we know being fined or sent to prison).
It also goes on to say what actual offences make an offender a sex offender. These are
a) have been convicted of a relevant offence
b) have been found not guilty of a relevant offence by reason of insanity or disability
c) have been cautioned for a relevant offence
d) have been convicted of a relevant offence outside the UK.
3) Give the police the power to photograph and fingerprint the sex offender on initial registration.
4) To give notice of foreign travel.
He also give the Crown Court the power to make a "restriction order" when convicting a sex offender which would take effect on release and could be for an indefinite period.
Amendments were also agreed to increase the maximum sentence under the Protection of Children Act 1978 for taking, making, distributing, showing and possessing with a view to distribution, indecent photographs of children under 16 from 3 years imprisonment, a fine, or both to a term not exceeding 10 years, or a fine, or both. In addition the simple possession of indecent images of children under 16 is to made either an offence and the maximum penalty available under section 160 of the Criminal Justice act 1998, is to be increased from 6 months imprisonment, or a fine, or both, to a term not exceeding 5 years imprisonment, or a fine, or both.
None of these go far enough and the Isle of Wight Parents Action Group will continue for more life sentences to be handed to these monsters and that...
LIFE should mean LIFE.
How many of these perverts have come out of prison and committed more offences. Probably the majority because we do not believe like the experts do that they can be cured.
We will also carry on campaigning, as we have done for the last 6 years for the sex offenders register to be made available to Parents, Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles etc etc.
We believe we have the right to know who the perverts are and where they live.