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Paedophile caught after investigation by Sky News

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  • #62
    Zander Slimy Oat
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Zander Slimy Oat


    Did he actually talk to any children or are they charging him with being explicit to reporters? :confused:


  • #63
    d.anthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭d.anthony


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Did he actually talk to any children or are they charging him with being explicit to reporters? :confused:

    I would imagine they would be hoping to nab him on the hope that there are indecent images on his computer.


  • #64
    sd2002
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭sd2002


    Reminds me of this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCywGhHQMEw


  • #65
    LookingFor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭LookingFor


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Did he actually talk to any children or are they charging him with being explicit to reporters? :confused:


    I thought they used a real 13 year old?

    Which I found kinda out there tbh.


  • #66
    Zander Slimy Oat
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Zander Slimy Oat


    LookingFor wrote: »
    I thought they used a real 13 year old?

    Which I found kinda out there tbh.

    Duno, the link says:
    "He began an online relationship with a 13-year-old girl called "Amy" without realising he was talking to undercover reporters"
    It's a bit ambiguous.
    If they did use a real child, the reporters are fecked up and should be charged.
    If they didn't, well, nothing to charge him with ??


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  • #67
    LookingFor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭LookingFor


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Duno, the link says:
    "He began an online relationship with a 13-year-old girl called "Amy" without realising he was talking to undercover reporters"
    It's a bit ambiguous.
    If they did use a real child, the reporters are fecked up and should be charged.
    If they didn't, well, nothing to charge him with ??

    I dunno. The segment showed a blonde girl (woman?) with the reporters chatting to him. She went on webcam with him even to prove she was 'real' to him etc. etc.

    Maybe she was just a young looking woman. Sorry I didn't catch the specific details there.


  • #68
    d.anthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭d.anthony


    It was a 19-year-old that looked younger.


  • #69
    sron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭sron


    Can you commit a crime against someone who doesn't exist?


  • #70
    sd2002
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭sd2002


    It was a 19-year-old posing as a 13-year-old.
    They showed the report a few months back and there was no mention of it again until today.


  • #71
    LookingFor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭LookingFor


    d.anthony wrote: »
    It was a 19-year-old that looked younger.


    Cheers. It seemed really weird to me to use a real kid.

    But then I wonder what the story is with regard to the technicalities of the conviction. He was convicted for grooming a child for sex but she wasn't actually a child. Or maybe the intention of what he was doing is what seals it?

    Not that it matters, justice was served, but I wonder how courts deal with the technicalities in these kinds of set ups with kids who aren't really kids.


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  • #72
    d.anthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭d.anthony


    LookingFor wrote: »
    Cheers. It seemed really weird to me to use a real kid.

    But then I wonder what the story is with regard to the technicalities of the conviction. He was convicted for grooming a child for sex but she wasn't actually a child. Or maybe the intention of what he was doing is what seals it?

    Not that it matters, justice was served, but I wonder how courts deal with the technicalities in these kinds of set ups with kids who aren't really kids.

    That's what I was saying few posts back. I think they're counting on finding images or stuff on his PC and then do him for that.


  • #73
    MoonDancer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭MoonDancer


    While we're on the subject of Paedophile's I found this video on youtube of an interview of an "ex paedophile" giving tips on how to make your child less attractive. I can't get over how the presenters are actually nodding in agreement with what this guy has to say.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0nnU71ggro


  • #74
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    MoonDancer wrote: »
    While we're on the subject of Paedophile's I found this video on youtube of an interview of an "ex paedophile" giving tips on how to make your child less attractive. I can't get over how the presenters are actually nodding in agreement with what this guy has to say.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0nnU71ggro

    Haha, do you actually not know what the Onion is?


  • #75
    D-Generate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    I saw on a news report before that pedophiles have the capability to send chemicals through a victims keyboard to make them feel more suggestive. It was some expose on pedophiles called Brass Eye. It was excellent!

    I hate that manufactured "news" that Sky and To Catch a Predator do. The news networks will do whatever they can to get a story and I feel facts and due process get pushed aside. I know a girl in the British Police that works in the sex crime unit, specifically that concerned with online predators and they absolutely hate these wannabe police because it doesn't lead to convictions. The only outcome of it is that a bunch of potential predators see this on TV and change their tactics and go underground.

    Also I am in two minds as to whether thought crimes should technically be illegal. The so called victim does not exist despite the intentions of the predator. If I threaten to kill an imaginary person should I be prosecuted for attempted murder?


  • #76
    MoonDancer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭MoonDancer


    minidazzler wrote: »
    Haha, do you actually not know what the Onion is?


    Ooops... no! LMAO is it a joke?!! :o


  • #77
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    sd2002 wrote: »
    It was a 19-year-old posing as a 13-year-old.
    They showed the report a few months back and there was no mention of it again until today.

    In Israel that's rape and she'd be locked up.


  • #78
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    MoonDancer wrote: »
    Ooops... no! LMAO is it a joke?!! :o

    Very much so! I know American Talkshow TV can be a bit odd at times, but that would be just too crass even for them!


  • #79
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Sky News are pond-life - this is not out of concern for children, this is to increase viewing figures and advertising revenue. Remember the exploitative circus it became for Maddie/Holly and Jessica/Baby P? Ker-ching!
    It's depressingly cynical and unethical and tasteless. And people who lap that stuff up just love the drama.


  • #80
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Dudess wrote: »
    Sky News are pond-life - this is not out of concern for children, this is to increase viewing figures and advertising revenue. Remember the exploitative circus it became for Maddie/Holly and Jessica/Baby P? Ker-ching!
    It's depressingly cynical and unethical and tasteless. And people who lap that stuff up just love the drama.

    Flyover choppers monitoring mourners before the funerals, the commentary just like a golf tournament.

    T'was classy.


  • #81
    aDeener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Was just watching that on youtube, I dunno who's creepier, the pedos or Chris Hanson?

    Why don't you have a seat?......... Have a seat over here


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  • #82
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Next week Sky are going to catch a dangerous bank robber with a sting operation that involves leaving an empty box marked 'loadsa money inside, do not steal' on a busy street.


  • #83
    sron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭sron


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    Flyover choppers monitoring mourners before the funerals, the commentary just like a golf tournament.

    T'was classy.

    Their disappointment at not being able to broadcast Raoul Moat's death live was palpable.


  • #84
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Voodu Child wrote: »
    Next week Sky are going to catch a dangerous bank robber with a sting operation that involves leaving an empty box marked 'loadsa money inside, do not steal' on a busy street.
    Lacks the "Won't someone think of the children" angle though. Don't know whether it would be that rewarding a money-spinner.


  • #85
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Dudess wrote: »
    Lacks the "Won't someone think of the children" angle though. Don't know whether it would be that rewarding a money-spinner.

    What's wrong with the "Won't someone think of the children" angle?


  • #86
    DerekDGoldfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭DerekDGoldfish


    Dudess wrote: »
    Lacks the "Won't someone think of the children" angle though. Don't know whether it would be that rewarding a money-spinner.

    Put a small cute white kid in the box and claim it was placed there by an asymum seeker let through by lazy french guards.

    Problem solved


  • #87
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    90% of the people that posted in this thread are fcuking rutheless!


  • #88
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yeah, paedophile supporters, that's what they are...


  • #89
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    "but but how many are still out there and hiding under rocks and and picking up our daughters and and.." SKY NEWS sickens me


  • #90
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Sky News used to be "News Headline on the hour, every hour", then they changed it to "News headlines every half hour", now it's "News Headlines every quarter hour".

    Says it all really.

    Sky are launching a new HD channel called Sky News for Goldfish.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • #91
    DerekDGoldfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭DerekDGoldfish


    K-9 wrote: »
    Sky News used to be "News Headline on the hour, every hour", then they changed it to "News headlines every half hour", now it's "News Headlines every quarter hour".

    Says it all really.

    Sky are launching a new HD channel called Sky News for Goldfish.

    Lets not sully the good name of goldfish everywhere


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