Global Pedophile Ring Crushed

Concerned Women for America ^ | 06/20/07 | Matt Barber

[randog]

How many DU accounts went quiet?

[ToddBush]

I know they aren’t our favorites, but that’s kind of low.

[PeterFinn]

That's kind of accurate.

[bcsco]

Benburch & Will the Pitt fer sure.

[VRWCmember]

In a related story, hundreds of new high school teaching positions are open across the country.

[Calpernia]

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852172/posts
Toronto police help British authorities smash global pedophile ring, 700 arrested

CEOP report at post 30.

[Calpernia]

Yes it is.

[Screamname]

Oh no, not again!

[oyez]

There are actually those(psychopaths ) who would soften - or remove altogether - penalties for adults who have sex with children.

How about removing the penalty for murder for parents and grandparents who choose to terminate those that mess with their children.

[antiRepublicrat]

Every time a pedophile views child pornography, he re-victimizes that child.

I agree on the felony thing, but they don't need to push it this far beyond logic. Consumption creates the market, the market is based on harm to kids, thus consumption creates harm to kids and creates demand for more harm. But viewing it again doesn't do any more harm to the individual child than has already been done.

[Always Right]

I know they aren’t our favorites, but that’s kind of low.

Low, but accurate

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

whoa....your “logic” is ridiculous in this situation.
I guess if one photo of you being brutalized was seen by one person that would be bad, but after that one, what difference would ten thousand more viewings have?

Wow, you twisted thinking is beyond logic...not just incorrect logic.

[mjrsgrlnMD]

Which part? It is not necessarily accurate to assume that anyone who is in possession of child pornography as it is defined today is a pedophile, a term which has a very specific psychiatric meaning. This is muddying the water, confusing REAL exploitation of children, actual abuse, with many other sorts of offenses lumped together in the current atmosphere of hype and hysteria. That’s the first problem I have with this and similar articles/positions/laws. The second is a more ephemeral issue but just as disturbing: I’m not sure how possession of ANY picture of ANY thing (not production, not distribution for profit, simple possession)can constitute a felony...I understand that child pornography is a terrible, terrible thing, I really do, but it is the abuse of the children involved that is the crime, not the pictures themselves. People who abuse children are terribly dangerous and sick. People who look at pictures of such abuse MIGHT be terribly dangerous and sick, but they might also NOT be, and I’m not sure how you can justify prosecution, felony prosecution no less, built on what you think someone might do based on what sorts of pictures they have in their possession. Even when “protecting the children” is the motivation.
Finally, I question the facts quoted in this article. The overwhelming majority of children who are sexually abused are abused by family members. THAT is fact, even though it makes us ill to think about it, and the overall recidivism rate for all classifications of sexual offenders is extremely low. True child predators, like any other predator, are extremely dangerous, should be confined, and fortunately relatively rare. The FBI and other law enforcement need to do a much better job of stopping this stuff from making it to the web by going after the abusers of children, but felonizing everyone who possesses it isn't the answer.

[subterfuge]

rounding up more than 700 suspects world-wide

Names. We need names.

[subterfuge]

How many are teachers or are leaders of child advocate groups?

[stinkerpot65]

Pedophilia will be the next liberal cause.

[Mr. K]

I noticed that one sentence too... liberal-think

[Spunky]

I can imagine that this 17 year old here where I live viewed pictures like those of the victims and so he then acted out on it.

RICHLAND, Wash.- "The myspace.com page of a 17-year-old child rape suspect has disturbing images of him with guns and numerous references to drug use.

James Wamsley is charged with raping a nine-month-old boy on Memorial Day.

Technically there's nothing incriminating on the site, and nothing on the site can be used in court.

The injured baby has been released from a Spokane Hospital."
Tri-Cities

Also we just moved to a newly developed neighborhood where there are no fences yet. The neighbor, not directly behind us, lets her little two year old girl run around outside naked all the time. With the knowledge of all the pedophilia and sexual abuse of children I just can't imagine a mother allowing that. She has no idea who all her neighbors are.

[antiRepublicrat]

I guess if one photo of you being brutalized was seen by one person that would be bad, but after that one, what difference would ten thousand more viewings have?

Exactly. The harm was done once. If such viewings create a demand for more brutalization, then I could be harmed again. But perv looks at a picture and harm is somehow teleported across the world, don't think so.

If anybody has a righteous cause, it's these people going after the producers and consumers of child porn. They are the last people who need to be using hyperbole.

BTW, read recently that Microsoft developed software to help police track this scum on the Internet and gave it away for free. Well-deserved kudos there.