http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6722225.stm

As has been said, it only needs someone completely innocent to `give the children a funny look’ for a public abuse of that person to occur and of course when found completely and utterley inncocent of any such thoughts will they be ever clear of any suspicion? No. Of course they won’t, mud sticks!

Why don’t the parents protect their kids on the quiet? Than put the fear of paedos into their hearts? This could cause nightmares/anxiety/psychological problems. Children should have the right to enjoy their childhood without being burdered by adult fear and insecurities.

I think the Madeline McCann case in the media has lead to a lot of children becoming fearful of being abducted, whereas the truth was Madeline was neglected by her parents.

So the yellow overalls will just add to the paedo hysteria..

..or better still; one of those itchy blue uniforms with the sexy pointy hat, and handcuffs!

Vigilante groups may be well-meaning but they often are like baying hounds once they’ve smelt their quarry. Unless they truly educate themselves regarding even the basics of the issue, at the very least there’ll be instances of paediatricians’ lives being made hell again. God knows what’ll happen to the naive senior neighbour who innocently says “Hello Dear” to a child in the park.

Modern day Salem witch hunts. Terrifying.

Met Police Det Con Graham Ferguson, 40, is charged on two counts, and Pc Gerard Collins, 26, from British Transport Police, is accused of three counts.

The charges follow a police investigation of alleged child pornography offences in January.

Both officers are due to appear before the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

MORONIC

I remember 91 fondly, us kids running through the woods looking for clues of Satans mates, so maybe, hopefully these kids wont be too damaged by another bout of sexually charged hysteria from adults/parents with far too much time on there hands.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6703239.stm

Ignorance is the problem here. ‘Stranger Danger’ is possibly one of the worst, most wilfully misleading ‘child safety’ campaigns ever concieved. Rather than filthy old men hanging about parks and school playgrounds, parents would be far better off checking up on those adults already known to their children as statistic after statistic confirms abused children almost always ‘know’ the adult involved and that adult is often known to the wider family or might, as is often the case, even be a part of it.

Still, the UK shows no signs whatsoever of losing it’s appetite for ’sticking it’ to the mysterious paedos - and there do, if rumours are to be believed, seem to be so very of them to go around). I am genuinely amazed we don’t yet have the reintroduction of public hangings, possibly even guillotines or perhaps a good flaying for this army of unholy daemons in our midst (and, god knows, according to the media and the police they are EVERYWHERE!).

…Meanwhile, back in the real world, mothers marching about in public with placards, shouting a bit, scaring small children, might make THEM feel a little safer, but while they’re so pre-occupied with imaginary dirty old men in raincoats loitering around schools and parks, I wonder if they actually have any idea what their little darlings get up to online, on their mobiles, on their web-cam enabled games consoles…?

This is not getting rid the most likely cause of abuse, but is ensuring that the focus is not looking where the danger really lies.