My neighbour is a convicted paedophile

Look up David Finkelhor, he wrote the book (in fact many) on paedophiles.

He recommends the equivalent of a sign on your lawn saying "this house is being watched" - so let him know you know, let him know he can't speak to your children, be clear that he needs to keep his distance.

He does have to live somewhere and the prisons can't take all the men currently sexually abusing children by seeking out these images but he needs to know not to go anywhere near your kids and that the community is watching him.

I totally understand where you’re coming from and how you feel you need to approach him as your instinct as a parent is to protect your children and rightly so. I wouldn’t approach him but just try to keep my distance from him as much as possible. You can only hope he moves away which he may well do as I’m sure he knows that most people will be aware of his conviction. He’ll also be registered on the sex offenders register and any breaches will see him imprisoned. I get you want to inform others but I’d probably be careful who I told, as this could have a detrimental effect when you came to sell your house. You don’t want to live near a paedophile understandably so, but potential buyers will think the same.

Yup.

I'm in the NHS and have had 2 colleagues go to prison for CSA. One a nurse abusing his 14 year old stepdaughter and 1 a senior Psychiatrist who went to prison for several offences, some being CSAM.

They were both struck off but at the time the Psychiatrist was struck off and I was looking at the publicly available medical hearings website, there were a couple I looked at where medics convicted of CSAM who didn't receive custodial sentences who weren't struck off incredibly.

I get it OP as it would make me feel sick to know one is so close. I don't know if anything can be done to block your garden from his view but if you can I'd do it. Make sure your kids know he's not a safe person and to not speak to him no matter what. Don't speak to him yourself, make your dislike for him known. Get cameras and be vigilant.

She can stop talking to him and cut him dead for any reason he wants.

She doesn't have to check with the police that the newspaper got every single detail right.

With all due respect if he was found guilty of ‘like the worst’ he WOULD NOT have got a suspended sentence. He would be in jail. Before you do/say anything check with the police, I mean news articles are always 100% reliable aren’t they? You really don’t want to get yourself in trouble.

I clearly remember Ian 'H' Watkins the Welsh singer from Steps getting a tonne of abuse and harassment because of Ian Watkins the Welsh paedophile singer from The Lost Prophets.

On a practical note if he has windows that can see into your garden for summer if get some sail shades and a gazebo so block his view.

I would be letting any new neighbours with children / grandchildren to be aware and that they should google the street name and the conviction.

Sadly child sexual predators seem to be allowed to walk free. Shame they can’t all have a tattoo slap bang on their foreheads letting the world know what monsters they are.

Agree with others, there are paedophiles everywhere. I know of two teachers convicted in last two years. One taught my DC (secondary), got a suspended sentence- was accessing it online. The other was a physical abuser, local to me. I had been to his house and spoken to him not long before it all came out.
Now you know you’re empowered not to speak to him and protect your DC.

Oh god. I read this and instantly worried that you were my neighbour!

We were in the exact same situation recently. The man in question had spent years chatting to us, offering to tutor my son, buying him presents (we did always keep him at an arms length and didn't pass on the presents etc) until one day the police appears to warn us what had happened but told us we cannot tell anyone because of the threat of vigilantism. We told them to tell him to stay the hell away from us, never approach us and never try and speak to us which the did.
He tried to speak to me about my son a day or so later so I firmly told him to stay away from me and my family, he was warned by the police and while I won't disclose the reason, I also won't deny if people ask. He backed off and complained about me to the police.
Anyways, a family moved in a couple doors down from him and they have two small children. I've reported this to the police officer/case worker to make them aware but obviously I can't tell the family as the police would then know it's me.
It's an awful situation to be in.

I do think better the devil you know. I know that this man is a risk so I can be extra vigilant around him, I've told my son if he ever tried to speak to him he has full permissions to be as rude as he needs to be to get this man away. He doesn't know the full extent as to why, we've just told him that the man is a bad guy.

Makes you feel sick though

This happened to a friend of mine. Realised her and her family were next door to a pedophile. They couldn’t move due to a lack of affordable housing options. They did however set up their garden with trees, trellises and sun shades so the children couldn’t be overlooked in the summer. They also put cctv around the boarder just in case. My friend did speak to him and tell him they knew and never ever to approach or speak to their children. All the neighbours knew and he was barely seen again.

Does he have children? If so I wouldn’t let your child go to play round there.

Thanks captain obvious.

Make sure it’s not someone else with the same name before you do or say anything to him.

It’s not about waving pitchforks. This man has a view into ops garden where her small children play. We had a convicted paedophile in our road, 3 doors down. His direct neighbour raised 4 children with very strict rules about clothes in the garden/ swimsuits for the paddling pool( behind a tree), because she didn’t want her children to be perved over/ photographed . Neighbours made a point of telling new families, in order that they be aware, not to victimise him. It is safeguarding not vigilantism.
No one told me because I had no kids when we moved in. I was friendly with him and was asked to feed his cats while he was in hospital. I saw some questionable pictures on the wall when I went to find the blind cat, and then asked about him. It was horrific because he had shown an interest in the teenager we had inherited, although I would never have allowed her round there. He was very ill so I didn’t confront him, but I never spoke to him again and he knew why.

That’s not true. The law around vigilantism is about the state monopoly on force. Acts which are illegal already are still illegal, of course - but passing on information is not illegal in and of itself and it wouldn’t be in this scenario.

and again, I said nothing about actually passing the information on.

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This is from a few years back https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/paedophile-uk-arrest-child-sex-abuse-police-internet-a9396661.html

2020 more than 450 a month being arrested for CSAM.

A few years before that https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/the-scale-of-child-sexual-abuse-means-we-cannot-solely-prosecute-our-way-out the most senior Police Officer in child protection calling for men arrested for possession of CSAM be dealt with out of court through other interventions due to the sheer scale of the problem (estimated 500, 000 people accessing CSAM online) and that prosecuting possessing CSAM was taking resources away from contact offenders.

That's why you can't send them all to prison and that's why there is no-where you can move to where there isn't likely to be a CSAM viewer in your local streets.

How is that not preferable to moving into a house near an unknown paedophile?

Knowledge is power as they say.

Then you must have more money than sense

Would you choose to move into a house where one of the neighbours is a known paedophile?

Please use the phrase “images of child sexual abuse”, CP implies consent and is disgusting.

Very similar (but it went beyond images of child sexual abuse) happened in my street with a male neighbour I spoke to daily because every time we walked past to go to school, he’d come out to chat. He got a custodial sentence but is back out now. I just don’t speak to him or look at him. If he ever asks me why I don’t speak to him (he won’t because he knows) I will act as though he doesn’t exist.

So you'd swap living near a known paedophile who you can avoid, with possibly living next door to an unknown paedophile whose crimes you know nothing about?

It seems like a step backwards.

It isn't madness and would be a risk im willing to take.

I don't want him near my kids

Easy to keep your little ones away from him.

seeing them out his window when they play in the garden

Nothing you can do about that or the other possible paedophiles whose windows overlook your garden I'm afraid.