Comments on: How can you spot a paedophile?

By: Ellee

Ellee — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:41:20 +0000

E-K,the kind of men (do women also view child porn sites?) who take part in these activities are sick, it is scary to think that our sentencing is getting soft on this as an easy option to deal with the huge number of cases. I agree with your anger about the mistreatment of elderly people too, they are vulnerable and abused in many situations too. There’s certainly no comparison with these abuses and the racism you mention.

Anon, the saddest thing is for a victim who has nobody to turn to who will believe him/her, especially if the abuser is someone known to the family, which can often be the case.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:23:14 +0000

I completely agree with Elecro-kev and cannot read the post because the subject makes me so mad. Peadophilia is still the most taboo subject and is not discussed. No it’s not. You get a case of a neighbour who’s the mother of an abused child, abused by the childs father, and no-one wants to know. No-one wants to be ‘involved’. And if that wasn’t bad enough you get the neighbours who shout at her in the street that she’s a liar and a bitch because he’s such a nice man. The child is traumatised and left bruised and bleeding and she’s had to turn to Social Services but she’s ostracised in the community because he’s ‘such a nice man’.

And if he’d called a coloured neighbour a nigger they’d all dislike him.

By: electro-kevin

electro-kevin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:00:43 +0000

Good to see you again, Istanbul Tory – I do hope that you haven’t been through too much trauma but I have an inkling that you’re being the model of stoic understatement. Whatever – best wishes to you.

Back on topic:

What is most alarming about paedophilia is its growing acceptance – that the police are now cautioning men who download child porn and that Pete Townsend appears to have been forgiven his ‘transgression’. Now, whilst in no way do I endorse the use of the word ‘nigger’ it appears ( from the treatment of Big Brother contestants) that racialism is our one remaining taboo – could this be because it is at the heart of the liberal raison detr’e rather than because it is offensive to black people ?

I posit that there are greater evils than racialism and child abuse is one of them – so to is the abuse of old people in its many forms, especially street muggings.

By: gracchi

gracchi — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:30:32 +0000

Ellee I agree about paedophiles and what makes it potentially worse and this goes for other kinds of crimes as well is that we suspect every person of being a paedophile or murderer. Actually of course there si a tiny chance of them being such- just take 100 and divide it by 60 million and there is the chance- but the normal looking face reinforces the idea that every stranger is a danger- which means that kids don’t play out in the road anymore and actually creates other problems like obesity- its a big issue.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:53:13 +0000

My heart goes out to those children. God only knows what emotional suffering the may have to endure for the rest of their lives.

Incidentally, welcome back, I’ve missed your challenging posts

I think your brothers could do a lot worse that to marry Polish girls, I thought they were very pretty. Sadly, I was not in one place long enough to get to know any

By: Ellee

Ellee — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:12:08 +0000

IT, how wonderful to hear from you after so long. Newmania and I were really very worried about your silence.

It’s shocking to hear how these peadophiles move about our society so freely, as Lina and Simon demonstrate in their comments.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:45:14 +0000

These “rings” are spread throughout society from the “ordinary” worker through to judges and politicians. Its like a cancer.

Our Aboriginal communities are suffering the same fate. Interesting to note that a federal minister for aboriginal affairs in the labor party was convicted of such activity a few years ago, and recently the state minister for aboriginal affairs was convicted as well.. A link perhaps or just coincidence?

By: Istanbul Tory

Istanbul Tory — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:37:32 +0000

Ellee, it’s been a while hasn’t it? But I am feeling my way towards a return to blogging. I have been much distracted by various forms of unpleasantness of late.
Paedophiles are, as others have rightly observed impossible to distinguish from other people. Mores the pity. I wish it were otherwise.
The Police are certainly to be congratulated on the latest arrests.While I support the Police in using using entrapment procedures and close mintoring of the web, we also need strict measures in place to prevent possible abuses of power by the Police in catching paedophiles.Already we are all under suspicion as a result of the surveillance and filtering systems our governments have installed on the Internet.

By: Rachel Joyce

Rachel Joyce — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:00:23 +0000

It’s true for all types of nasty people. My son was visiting his new school open evening and they had a psychology experiment.
They had a number of photos of criminals and innocent people and asked participants to determine who were the criminals – overall the guesses were no better than chance.

By: Ellee

Ellee — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:50:13 +0000

Thanks everyone, it’s great to be back blogging again. I just wonder how these people can sleep at night after inflicting so much pain on innocent young people.