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Anyone wish to comment on wisdom of notifying community of paedophile's addresses?

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DeepPannCrispandEven · 12/12/2006 22:57

May I commence?

Understandable reaction to 'know' the source of 'danger', but this measure is misguided, ill-conceived and entirely misses the point about protecting vulnerable children......

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 12/12/2006 23:39

I dont see how knowing an address can help protect children any more than just knowing who they are would.

It would make it so that people could easily mete out their own form of "justice", should they wish to, which i dont particularly approve of.

unknownrebelbang · 12/12/2006 23:40

No, it would just send them "underground", thereby putting children at greater risk.

Very simplistic argument, but one I fear is very real.

Pruni · 12/12/2006 23:41

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snowleopard · 12/12/2006 23:42

It's madness. What makes me so angry about it is that it distracts people from the source of the vast majority of sexual abuse - their own families and friends. Everyone should be on guard for abuse, all the time, not only start thinking it's a possibility because they've found out about some old git living on the corner. Aaaaarrrggh.

DeepPannCrispandEven · 12/12/2006 23:46

it's the N.of the W. who informed a local community of the whereabouts of a child killer and sex offender...riot police etc, he scarpers, house burnt down......now pressure back up for Megan's Law....

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DeepPannCrispandEven · 12/12/2006 23:53

All this happened today...

thought that MNers would be good on this point...

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 12/12/2006 23:53

NOTW???

DeepPannCrispandEven · 12/12/2006 23:54

News of the World/Screws

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TwinkleInSantasEye · 12/12/2006 23:58

Children need to be taught the old message "stranger danger" in the case of ALL strangers - not just someone their parents think is a paedophile. Not that I advocate scaremongering mind you, just plain common sense.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 12/12/2006 23:58

Yes, I know what NOTW stands for you numpty!

I meant - link? Article? etc

DeepPannCrispandEven · 13/12/2006 00:01

ah..oh opaque one...

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ClementClarkeMoore · 13/12/2006 00:06

Oh my feet need a good seeing too.

DeepPannCrispandEven · 13/12/2006 00:07

Can't find a link..no mention on BBC web....

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DeepPannCrispandEven · 13/12/2006 00:48

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6170765.stm

is the best I can do!!

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mw14 · 13/12/2006 10:58

If NOTW are really interested in protecting people, why do they not publish names and addresses of murderers, who are arguablly more dangerous than paedophiles?

NotQuiteCockney · 13/12/2006 11:08

As others have said, most paedophiles do their damage to children in the family, or children of their friends. "stranger danger" is rubbish.

wannaBeOnTopOfTheChristmasTree · 13/12/2006 11:10

it achieves nothing. so the NOTW publishes the name and address of a convicted child killer in this instance. The local vidulanti mob move in and start protesting outside his house, throwing bricks, smashing windows, putting things through the letter box, and then said individual is escorted out the back by police and taken to ... where? to the next town where the NOTW will then find out where he is, ana again will publish his details, only next time, he might not be so quick to call the police, next time, he might get away on his own, to somewhere where no-one knows where he is, where the police don't know where he is and can't keep track of him, thus increasing the possibility that he might re-offend. Oh yeh and once he's escorted out of the house the local mob then torches the house, thus ensuring that, not only can he not move back there, but that the councel can't use it to house someone who is also genuinely in need of a house, very bright - not.

Sara's law is a stupid idea IMO. if they start publishing the whereabouts of known paedofiles, then it will just lead to more and more instances like the one that played out this week.

I don't believe that paedofiles should necessarily be let out, but fact is, they are, and it's the judicial system that decides what happens to them, not the local mob - two wrongs don't make a right.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 13/12/2006 11:37

Should paedophiles have the right to 'rehabilitation'?

TwinkleInSantasEye · 13/12/2006 11:39

Stranger danger is not rubbish NotQuiteCockney. I completely agree that most abuse comes from within the family/friends circle, but children still need to know how to keep themselves safe. It's much better to give children the tools to protect themselves rather than rely on being told the whereabouts of known paedophiles, cos what about the unknown ones. That's all I was saying. And I'm not saying that children should be afraid of every adult either - I was taught about "stranger danger" at school and it never skewed my perception of decent honest adults.

foxinsocks · 13/12/2006 11:46

I think it's ridiculous that the NOTW persist with this campaign. I thought they'd learnt their lesson in 2000 when lots of innocent people were persecuted because of them.

They aren't doing for the greater good of society, they're doing it for their circulation. So now this man, who it appears had been fully co-operating with the probation people, has to be moved to another town. Where does it stop? Do they identify him again in that town and then where does he go?

DizzyBinterWonderland · 13/12/2006 11:52

VVQ- it depends if you think paedophilia can be treated. some say castrate them so they don't get any sexual urge. maybe that's the solution.

beckybrastraps · 13/12/2006 11:56

I've been thinking about what I would do if I found out that a registered child sex offender was living near me. What would I do differently? How would it help me to know? And TBH I can't see that it would make any difference, except make me worry. I think I keep my children reasonably well looked after now. I don't think I would need to change that. We are vigilant anyway surely?

DeepPannCrispandEven · 13/12/2006 18:15

Dizzy - castration does no such thing.....removing gentitalia would lead to more imaginative responses from abusers.

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flutturkey · 13/12/2006 18:24

The only thing that would happen if anything like this ever became law would be

a) some people would go round and try to dish out their own form of justice

and

b) the one who didn't do this would just look at every single man they came accross and wonder if he was the one.

Having this kind of information can do nothing but amke things worse.

paulaplumpbottom · 13/12/2006 19:03

I don't know how I feel about exact addresses, but would be ok with being notifyed that one lived in say a 5 mile radius

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