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Is the Irish justice system incentivising paedophiles?

  • 28-07-2011 11:19am
    #1
    HellFireClub
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    You'd have to wonder do people convicted in this jurisdiction of possession of paedophile images/material, walk away from a conviction, actually strenghtened in their deviance and their desire to participate in the sick sexual abuse of children.

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/bar-staff-discovered-child-porn-images-on-mans-phone-514396.html

    Here's a guy who was caught with images of children being abused on his phone, children between the ages of 8 and 16.

    Yet he gets 240 hours community service. I remember a guy years ago just after I left school, who got a similar sentence for spraying grafitti on the side of a house.

    In all seriousness, are we giving paedophiles any other message other than, "it's grand, sure continue with what you were doing there", when a guy convicted of these kind of disgusting crimes gets a 240 hour community service order???


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  • #2
    Jelle1880
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    Well, if he only was found to possess those pictures then that's it.
    There is no proof he abused children, as those pictures could have been downloaded.

    Hence the light punishment.


  • #3
    Nijmegen
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    Those who are in possession of child sexual abuse imagery are both further victimising the child and spurning on demand for more child sex abuse material to be produced. There is also research that shows that a % of those who view child sex abuse imagery will themselves go on to abuse.

    They are committing a further crime against the victim because, for this victim, those images will be out there forever. Imagine being an adult, with your own children, knowing that somebody is pulling their plumb to images of you being raped as a child?

    This imagery is part of a business. Sometimes for money, other times for trading more images, the more people there are consuming the more of a potential market there is, the more commodities - the children - are required.

    I believe anyone viewing child sex abuse material should be given a sentence as a %, perhaps 25% or even 50%, of the crime itself as if they were committing it. Of course, in Ireland this may only amount to community service!


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