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TV3 TEXT PERV HUNT (Irish Daily Mirror)

  • 30-07-2004 10:15pm
    #1
    Raskolnikov
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    Must have been an even slower than slower news day for this to make front page. Now wether the man in question is guilty or not, it's not really the job of the Mirror to be reporting this (the phrases innocent until proven guilty and perverting the course of justice spring to mind). But for an article that is based totally on heresay and conjecture to make the front page in an attempt to scare Irish parents is ridiculous. Not only that, but it's an insult to children all over the world who are being abused on the net. Christ, all you've got to do is go to google and you'll be subjected to a million times worst than some old fart trying to jerk off. Censorship isn't something that I'm particularily fond of, but when it comes to the English gutter press, you've really got to consider it.
    TV3 TEXT PERV HUNT, front page.

    Gardai were hunting a suspected paedophile yesterday who tried to entice a girl of 13 on TV3's text chat page.

    The 39-year-old wanted a school girl to talk to but other texters ordered him off the site immediately and alerted the Garda.

    The spokesman for the 3Text service said yesterday: "We are aware the message went up but as soon as the other chatters spotted it they shot him down and he didn't get back on." One woman, a regular chatter on the station's text page, said: "I couldn't believe it when the message came up last weekend.

    . . . .

    The 3Text spokesman added: "We contacted the man after the Mirror alerted us and when we got him on his mobile he said he had made a mistake and he meant to type in 18, he actually asked for someone between 13 and 55".


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  • #2
    mike65
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    Its worth a story if not front page, after all children use such services like they breath the air and pervs know that, so its a good hunting ground. It story fullfills a tabloid brief perfectly, its "sensational" while they would call providing it a public service.

    Mike.


  • #3
    JTPB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭JTPB


    Raskolnikov wrote:
    Must have been an even slower than slower news day for this to make front page. Now wether the man in question is guilty or not, it's not really the job of the Mirror to be reporting this (the phrases innocent until proven guilty and perverting the course of justice spring to mind). But for an article that is based totally on heresay and conjecture to make the front page in an attempt to scare Irish parents is ridiculous. Not only that, but it's an insult to children all over the world who are being abused on the net. Christ, all you've got to do is go to google and you'll be subjected to a million times worst than some old fart trying to jerk off. Censorship isn't something that I'm particularily fond of, but when it comes to the English gutter press, you've really got to consider it.
    :cool:

    I couldn't agree more with every word you said.

    If the Press want to be free, they should be responsible. And despite all their campaigning about child abuse (especially, it seems to me, when the perpetrator is outside the family unit) the number of child murders in the UK has remained very static over the past few decades - despite that we seem to hear about it a lot these past few years. So, they (gutter press) serve no useful purpose in that regard.


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