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Judges should be made to view "the full horror" of internet child porn before jailing paedophiles, Tory Leader Iain Duncan Smith has stated...
He called for new laws banning "chatroom grooming" of kids by predatory adults. In addition, he demanded tougher supervision by Internet providers.
Mr Duncan Smith said many Judges relied o entirely on police evidence before sentencing paedophiles...
"They are often reluctant to view these pornographic sites because they are so ghastly", he said...
However, the full horror of this material should be seen and acknowledged.
"Paedophiles rarely accept they are committing a crime and their re-offending rate is very high".
"Their movements should be monitored more closely and sentences should be appropriate to a crime which destroys young lives".
The Tory Leader added, "Internet Grooming should be a criminal offence". "It is quite possible to draft a clause which would stop any action by an adult to a child for harmful sexual purposes". "We should also make it a criminal offence to refuse to hand over the "key" to encrypted internet storage. Without this code it is almost impossible to access the material and obtain vital evidence".
Mr Duncan Smith ACCUSED INTERNET PROVIDERS OF FAILING TO WEED OUT POSSIBLE OFFENDERS.
He said, "They do not do enough. There is a moral obligation on them to make sure people don't use their systems to damage young people.
"WE NEED A CONSTANT WATCH ON WEBSITES".
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DEMAND ON PAEDOPHILE SENTENCES IS REJECTED ...!!!
A body that advises Judges on sentencing has rejected tougher penalties for paedophiles that use and distribute child pornography...
The decision by the Sentencing Advisory Panel has angered experts in the child protection field, who accused the board of taking insufficient account of victims...
In its report published on Thursday August 15, 2002, the panel said the maximum 10-year jail sentence for people who view and distribute child pornography, should be only used for "very serious examples".
It rejected calls by some in the child protection field for jail sentences to be used in every case...
The report said...
"We do not agree with small minority who suggested that a custodial penalty should always be imposed. Nor do we accept that offences involving child pornography should automatically be treated as being of equal seriousness to child abuse"...
I.W.P.A.G. say "All paedophiles /child sex offenders are guilty be it by direct involvement or via the Internet"...
The number of sex offences against children by perverts has soared.
Home Office figures show Indecency with minors is up nearly a THIRD on 1990, while murders of youngsters has risen by 50 per cent.
The grim toll has increased as the amount of child porn pouring into Britain has risen to astonishing levels. BUT Judges are still letting off sex offenders with light sentences.
Less than half of those convicted for gross indecency with boys under 14 went to jail - and only 52 per cent in cases involving girls.
Just 64 per cent of offenders were jailed for indecently assaulting boys under 16.
Sixty per cent were jailed for unlawful sexual intercourse with girls under 13 and 52 per cent on girls under 16.
Many of abusers either get off with a caution or a community service order.
In 1990, there were 67 child killings. By 2000, the figure had gone up to 110.
Last year 583 children were kidnapped - THREE TIMES as many as ten years ago. The figures do not show how many cases involved domestic disputes. They also do not spell out cases where a child is snatched, abused, and then set free in a short space of time.
The increasing influence of the internet is clear in other figures showing an incredible rise in police seizures of indecent images of children.
In 1995, Greater Manchester police seized 12 pornographic images, all on video or still photographs. In 1999, they seized 41.000 such images - all but three on computes. Last year one man was arrested for possessing 50.000 pornographic images of children.
Operation Magenta, which involved 34 police forces, resulted in 75 addresses being simultaneously raided last April. Police arrested 27 people aged 15 to 59, including a teacher and a doctor.
The legal system is far too soft on the perverts, according to a lawyer specialising in child abuse. He said the courts leniency was risking a "National Disaster". She added, "Virtually every street in Britain has a paedophile so we have a massive problem in this Country". She has also laid much of the blame on internet use.
She said, "Far from seeing the reduction of risk of child abuse in this Country, we are actually seeing the accelerator pedal going down - because of the internet. The internet offers easier access and there is less chance that abusers will be caught online. It is not being policed properly and there are not enough resources. There are even cases of children as young as one day old being abused"...
Lee Moore of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers told of a case where a QC said a girl of seven had consented to rape because she went for a cuddle. She also cited a case of 80 year-old convicted paedophile Trevor Mellis, who was set free this year despite admitting taking and distributing indecent pictures of children. The Judge thought Mellis was too old and would have a rough time in prison... !!!
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