in prison until next month when he’s sentenced for downloading the child porn.

i was quite shocked that he was being sent to prison for looking at a .jpg, but then my colleagues were shocked that i was shocked, so fuck knows what’s Right and Wrong any more.

any idea what kind of “child porn” he was looking at?

if he was checking out 15 year olds in bikinis that’s dubious, but to lock someone up for?

if he was knocking one out over babies getting raped, throw away the key innit.

it seems that we just have a one size fits all “paedo” tag which isn’t very mature is it?

he had pictures and video’s of noncing.

some of it was pretty young i read before, but it doesnt say that on here –

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2140485,00.html

from bbc

“When it was put to him that 99.9% of the images he viewed contained pre-teen girls, Mr Langham said: “Little girls are not my prominent interest sexually. Little girls are not my interest at all.”

He admitted he had subscribed to an American website that featured women being raped but said violence against women did not arouse him.

“I’m fascinated by what people do and I’m fascinated by people tying each other up and doing weird sexual things to each other; I think it’s interesting.” “

should his unconfirmed child buggery when he was 8 be taken in to account?

that article does give the impression that it was material concerning the abuse of young children, if he was viewing it in relation to his own abuse at the age of eight.

but i do maintain that in these kind of cases, when the country is gripped by noncesteria and we’re clearly expected to form a moral judgement on the man, that all parties concerned deserve a more nuanced assesment.

it’s weird to me that there are shades of murder (manslaughter etc), but not of sex.

not at all, imo.

if anything that should reinforce the fact that that kind of abuse of trust is a Bad Thing.

but yes, it was a craven ploy for sympathy, in recognition to the way the baying mob responds…

that is why there is a gap between judgment and sentencing is it not?

to allow the ‘hysteria’ and emotions to subside in the court room if nothing else, for proffessionals to give reports, psych assessments etc to allow the judge to sentence according to guidelines and previous cases

i suspect the sentence given to a man caught looking at 15 year old girls and a man looking at 5 year old girls would be materially different in terms of sentence – if not in the eyes of The Sun (turn to page 3 for 16 year old Sophie in her school uniform!)

“pre-teen” kind of explains what he was downloading :yakk:

the jurors were shown images from his computer and one was left in tears after seeing them

where does it say pre-teen in that article?

it was on a bbc one a few days ago

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6915417.stm