‘Some paedophiles with images of child abuse will escape prosecution, the head of the National Crime Agency says.’
When I read the BBC article properly, I soon realised that when the head of the NCA Keith Bristow said ‘some’ he meant about 50,000. The focus, he continued, would be on those who posed most risk. Oh what a relief. That leaves only around 50,000 perverts looking at child pornography. That’s all right then?
Well, not it’s not bloody all right.
Look at the words of Jim Gamble, who resigned as head of Ceop, part of the NCA, in 2010, said: “Are we going to say because there’s too many we can’t do it?”
He added that it was “shameful” Mr Bristow had to “come out and deliver this hard but honest message”.
“And the shame belongs with [Home Secretary] Theresa May who has not invested – who has not delivered anything beyond rhetoric to make things better for children where the internet is involved.”
Theresa May, a politician, delivering nothing beyond rhetoric? Surely not?
I am no mathematician but the great unsaid is this: we are not spending enough on the fight against paedophiles. If we can only focus on those who pose most risk, then what about the rest? Any form of child pornography is totally unacceptable. How do you define those who don’t pose much of a risk, or simply enjoy watching children being abused for their own sexual gratification? Is there a line somewhere that defines perversion?
It’s like anything else that matters. If you want a strong health service, you need to pay for it. If you want good schools, you have to pay for them. And if you want the NCA to investigate more than just those who pose the greatest risk – and I am for zero tolerance when it comes to the abuse of children – then we shall have to pay for that too.
So yes, there is politics involved here. I don’t want there to be because there should be no political divide on this most awful of issues. If an extra penny on tax is required to ensure more paedophiles are investigated, apprehended, prosecuted and then imprisoned, then so be it. Don’t do it on the cheap.
I am sick of the weasel words of politicians who spin that they hate these filthy perverts but then cut the resources to tackle them.
Paedophiles – right or wrong? Not a difficult answer, is it?
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and how many politicians have been found guilty of paedophilia along with celebrity friends? This latest announcement by the head of the NCA has all the markings of yet another cover up….sickening and sadly indicative of this government’s attitude to the weak and vulnerable in society.
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