Madeleine McCann ‘Befriends’ A Paedo
MADELEINE McCann: BEFRIEND a paedophile. And not just a paedo but other sex offenders. The BBC’s Bob Howard wonder if “’befriending’ them be the best way to stop them committing more crimes?” Well, yes. If you give them what they want.
In a trail for the Donal MacIntyre shop BBC Radio 5 live on Sunday 11 April at 1930, the BBC meets Sarah, who “regularly meets a man convicted of serious sex offences against children”. He nows live in the “community”. Not the paedo community, but a more general community called London.
Sarah says she was partly inspired to volunteer by the press coverage surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
You know, the child you inspired MacIntyre to journey to Praia a Luz and solve the case for the media.
She goes on:
“There was a lot of press talking about paedophiles, lots of big splash front pages saying ‘evil’. I started to think there’s got to be a way to stop this from happening in the beginning.”
Hold on a moment. The disappearance of the innocent child who became the media’s Our Maddie might not involve a paedo. But in some merging of fact and fiction and fear, the missing child’s legacy is to get volunteers to make pals with a paedo. Do they wear Maddie badges?
Ok, sarcasm aside. This is progress. The paedophile amnesty has yet to made real, but here at least is a woman doing something to make paedophiles confront that part of their human nature that made them a pariah.
Says Sarah:
“There’s a lot of trepidation. You never know how you’re going to react. Your first instinct is to feel disgust and revulsion over what they’ve done.”
And your second?
“I don’t consider myself a bleeding-heart liberal. I’m someone who looks at the big picture and tries to find a solution. As far as the police tell us he hasn’t offended in five years. He doesn’t want to re-offend again, he doesn’t want to create any more victims.”
And it’s a paedo monitoring service, too:
“…volunteers in East Anglia say they became suspicious of the offender’s behaviour. Circle volunteer Ian says from the start they felt there was something wrong. He was telling us things which just didn’t sound right. We reported it. The police reckoned he was grooming a young boy.”
So. How do you deal with paedos?
Posted: 9th, April 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
April 13th, 2010 at 4:16 am
So. How do you deal with paedos? Well, this would be a start, surely?
15th December 2009: Today, national child protection charity the Lucy Faithfull
Foundation has responded to the custodial sentences imposed upon Vanessa George
and Angela Allen by calling for greater acknowledgment of the presence of female sex
offenders in today’s society.
http://www.lucyfaithfull.org.uk/media/27684/child%20protection%20charity%20calls%20for%20recognition%20of%20scale%20of%20female%20sexual%20offending.pdf
April 9th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
I think such people try to infiltrate anywhere where children gather and most of the adults concerned are trusted completely, and can be trusted too.
The RC Church has a lot to do to restore trust in their clergy, whether they can while their victims are still alive remains to be seen.
The practice itself could also be seen as lust, which in RC parlance is a deadly sin, and answerable for, but is it a mental illness?
Its one thing understanding that it might be, and such things are beyond control of the ‘sufferer’, but tolerating it is another matter.
Its rather like the current statement uttered over here over too lenient sentences where ‘a hard childhood’ is blamed for criminal activity and allowances made.
April 9th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
That is what it is, June, but laws do not recognize it as a form of mental disorder.
Below link is an informative one page read. The Catholic Church should have read this many, many years ago, as under the ‘Symptoms’ paragraph in one sentence note: “Potential pedophiles may volunteer their services to athletic teams, Scout troops, or religious or civic organizations that serve youth.” There have been scandals over here with those found working with the Boy Scouts, also.
I agree with you they should be put away from society permanently. We do execute those who actually kill the child. Then some states had execution for those who committed the abuse without killing the victim; but the Supreme Court over turned their laws in a case brought before it in the past year.
It does no good for citizens to take the law into their own hands even if they disagree and think it is too lenient in some cases. That case over here many years ago a mother shot and killed the man who was sexually abusing her daughter and she got charged and sentenced to 4 years in prison. The Judge had no choice but to put her in prison and used the most lenient sentence he could.
http://www.minddisorders.com/Ob-Ps/Pedophilia.html
April 9th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Cheryl
Is it a mental illness, or just a perversion from the norm. Is amorality or even immorality beyond self control or just a free choice that when caught becomes ‘mental illness’?
If it is a real illness then shouldn’t such people , when caught, be permanently detained away from children?
April 9th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
A paedo may not want to offend again but it is a mental illness. I wonder if Sarah with her looking at the big picture and finding the solution had any children she would have a paedo who offended in the past babysit her children.
A couple of years ago on TV a young man in his 20s was interviewed, who was a paedo and killed one of his numerous victims, was sitting on death row and when interviewed said he had waived all his appeals as he knew if he got out of prison he would go after children again. He had started victimizing children in his teens.
April 9th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
vivisection