My neighbour is a convicted paedophile

Thank you Sarover. Your post perfectly illustrates why good and rational decision making should remain separate from emotion.

OP this doesn’t match what @Lemonfrost or any other poster, has said at all! Who said they wanted him to have a happy life? Nobody. Who supports his perversions? Absolutely nobody. Not even close.

I have huge sympathy with your situation. I’d hate to be in your shoes and I would feel the same fear and panic as you. I would also feel extreme anger towards my neighbour and wish he would go. Your anger and revulsion are justified and completely understandable. But your feelings aren’t the best basis for deciding rationally how to react to your neighbour. That is what @Lemonfrost and others are telling you.

This post is a complete fiction on your part.

I have made no comment on him "living a happy and undisturbed life"

I don't recall saying "leave him alone" either - but please do correct me if I am wrong.

You become grossly offensive, not to mention ridiculous, when you say it's like I am "supportive of his perversions".

But carry on OP, you obviously enjoy creating your own narrative, which is evident really when you look at this thread.

I agree with this. I wouldn’t be putting that scumbag’s right to privacy and a peaceful life above the right of those around him to know what he is. His crimes are unforgivable and he should be forced to deal with the fallout from it until the day he dies.

Well done.

Any creepy behavior contact the police. Don’t take matters into your own hands and end up in trouble.

This kind of thing just pushes offenders into living much more transient lives, constantly moving from place to place, which makes them harder to keep track of. It doesn't help at all actually.

Sorry, but I disagree - it's a fact that much porn is legitimate, well established and often part of mainstream culture. You don't have to like it, but that's how it is. I think it's pretty risky to put companies like Bellessa, or Club or Fiesta magazine in the same category as depictions of the sexual abuse of children.

It really isn’t. Some adult pornography is classed as extreme and it’s illegal to make, possess, view or distribute it. And when watching adult porn you have no way of knowing whether participants are there of their own free will, or have been coerced. It perpetuates the cycle of abuse that those trafficked into this type of work suffer. So no. None of it is ‘legitimate’.

In this context I think you are wrong.

A coerced or stolen pornographic image of an adult women would not be classed as pornography - the criminal circumstances of its manufacture would outweigh the more general classification.

I’m sorry to hear this it sounds really distressing.

my vote is on do nothing and have no contact.

a study 2 years ago showed that 1 in 6 men have interests in children under the age of 18. As a survivor of CSA myself, I absolutely do not wish to minimise the impacts on victims, which is life changing and awful. My only caution is that, adults who have inappropriate feelings towards children are far more common than we think, and you moving house isn’t going to necessarily reduce your risk, and even if he moves out, how do you know that others aren’t a risk and they haven’t been caught yet.

TLDR: feels like something hard to control, just make sure your kids are confident and trust talking to you / understand what behaviour is normal and acceptable from adults.

the study here: theconversation.com/a-survey-found-1-in-6-men-admit-sexual-feelings-for-children-so-is-paedophilia-increasing-218124

I agree - but in legal terms, we are where we are. And at the level of misogyny both internalised and active amonsgt the general population, this is the best way to ensure that there is no possibility of any 'but if they consented..' discourse, which is particularly likely after children reach puberty.

It's best not to muddle two issues. You can't fight child abuse while simulaltaneously debating pornography. One thing at a time, even though they come from the same seed, which is male violence.

That's a separate debate. For the purpose and context of this thread, adult pornography is classed as a legitimate entity.

Also ‘Child pornography’ isn’t the correct term - it’s ’child sexual abuse images/videos’.

According to statistics, there are enough pedophiles in the UK for there to be one on every street.
At least you know where this one is.
Grey rock him, do not acknowledge him and in the summer if your children are in the garden in swimwear, put a gazebo up to block his view.
If he walks past you when you’re with your children, make sure to hold their hands tight and move them away from him.

He’s scum! I honestly hope he moves far, far away.

Agree that it isn’t child pornography - the term is child sexual abuse, let’s call it what it is. But nobody should think of the word phonographs as implying consent in any circumstance, given that so many people taking part are trafficked and forced into it.

OK. You don't understand my terminology, I have attempted to explain it. You don't agree. There really isn't anything more to say.

@Lemonfrost Shall I find you another hair to split?

That's not what "splitting hairs" means.

As for point 2, I work in the field. We don't use the CP term and have not done so for years. You can make of that what you will.

Regardless of what terminology you use, what you are saying makes no logical sense.

I will politely point out that use of the term "child abuse image" is non-specific and includes images that aren't sexual in nature. If an offender is viewing sexual images specifically, is it not important to call that out?

Shall I find you another hair to split? In the UK, where post is centred, adult pornography is LEGAL. Whether people fond it acceptable or not is another debate entirely.

As for point 2, I work in the field. We don't use the CP term and have not done so for years. You can make of that what you will.

No, everybody doesn't need to know.

If it’s reported in the newspapers it’s a conviction in a court of law.

The first point is that whether pornography is legitimate depends on where you are, and who you talk to. In many countries, it is illegal. On mumsnet, either a majority, or at least a large minority, would probably argue that pornography is not acceptable.

Second point is... what you are saying makes no logical sense. 'Pornography' is a parent category, which consists of numerous subcategories. If we assume for argument's sake that some of the subcategories are acceptable, that does not mean or imply that all subcategories are acceptable. This type of reasoning is very surprising and confusing to me.

That's exactly the point I am making.

Yes, what a hassle! Sorry you have to deal with this op!

Because pornography is seen as, and often is, legitimate. You can legally buy it, make it, watch it and sell it. When we start talking about 'child pornography' we are placing it in the same bracket, as a niche offshoot. It's not acceptable.