Sex Offender Registries, Sex Offenders Search, News, Info and Discussion

  
Home | Sex Offender Registry | Megan's Law | Forums (Message Boards) | News Archive
AMBER Alert | Law Enforcement Agencies | Directory of Sites | Polls | Library | Glossary | More Resources                             Login | About Us

Forum: In the News

Thread (Discussion): [BBC News] An amnesty for internet paedophiles?

In order to post a message to a new thread or reply to existing messages you must be logged in. If you'd like to post messages please login or register as a new user.

Message 122940
Introduction


Posted by admin on Dec 11, 2003 02:00 PM | Also by admin
Gender: N/A, Age Bracket: N/A, State: N/A, Country: N/A
Discuss the article An amnesty for internet paedophiles?, by Brian Wheeler, which appeared on BBC News on December 09, 2003.

Forum Home | Top of Thread
In order to post a message to a new thread or reply to existing messages you must be logged in. If you'd like to post messages please login or register as a new user.

Message 122941 (In Reply to Message 122940)
Wow - definitely controversial


Posted by steve on Dec 11, 2003 07:12 PM | Also by steve
Gender: Male, Age Bracket: N/A, State: Virginia, Country: United States
"Police are considering launching a computer hard drive amnesty as part of a crackdown on internet sex offenders...aim to prevent child abuse by getting people who have images of children to volunteer for counselling...would be able to hand in their computer hard drives to police, to be destroyed or wiped clean. They would then be assessed by a psychiatrist and if, after appropriate treatment, were judged to be no risk to children, would be given a caution...still be placed on the sex offenders register, but would be spared the humiliation of a court appearance and a formal prosecution."

My initial reaction is that very few will take advantage of this. A person would not only have to have a desire to get help, they'd have to feel that there's a strong chance they'd get caught eventually anyway.

Forum Home | Top of Thread | Jump To Parent (122940)
In order to post a message to a new thread or reply to existing messages you must be logged in. If you'd like to post messages please login or register as a new user.

Message 122965 (In Reply to Message 122941)


Posted by Silverthorne on Dec 12, 2003 12:03 AM | Also by Silverthorne
Gender: Male, Age Bracket: N/A, State: Arizona, Country: United States
"still be placed on the sex offenders register, but would be spared the humiliation of a court appearance and a formal prosecution." "

Like being on the registry isn't humiliation? How about being on the registry with no conviction??????

Very funny.

SIlverthorne

Forum Home | Top of Thread | Jump To Parent (122941)

Thread


122940, admin, Dec 11, 2003 02:00 PM [Introduction]
      122941, steve, Dec 11, 2003 07:12 PM [Wow - definitely controversial]
            122965, Silverthorne, Dec 12, 2003 12:03 AM
Forum Home | Top of Thread
Tell a Friend about this page.
Copyright 1998-2007 SexCriminals.com and Befriend | About Site | Credits | Contact Us