Stephen Ireland sentenced

He is a child sex offender who is sexually attracted to young boys and men.

There are many child sex offenders who are sexually attracted to young girls and women.

Others who are only sexuall attracted to children who will groom other adults and position themselves into relationships and positions of trust to gain access to a child.

It was his sexual attraction to (young ) children which is the problem and acting on that is the criminal offence.

There should be no sacred castes in society. No one is above suspicion and anyone who tries to persuade authorities that a particular person or group should not be seen as a risk because they are 'marginalised’ probably needs to be looked at even more closely.

NC.

I went to school with Stephen Ireland. None of what has happened has surprised me.

I don't think Ireland and the many, many others are pretending to be gay.

For the sake of the children people need to vigilant. Thankfully the public are becoming more aware.

I did wonder about the weird posting behaviour on two other threads. There seems to be considerable consternation about something. At least one of those posters seems to be a significant safeguarding risk.

Perhaps some journalist somewhere is busy joining dots?

Correct!

Busy posting on / starting other threads in order to sink this one

<shocked Picachu face>
Colour me surprised.
And all other similar phrases...

I note our resident TRA are steering very clear of this thread

Don't you mean paedophile men?
It's a known thing that paedophile men pretend to be gay - it's a useful cover because they can claim homophobia and get support if they are accused of the classic smear against gay men, i.e. that they are all paedophiles.

I think it's fair to say after this terrible case and the many others fantastic women such as the team at Reduxx have brought to our attention that many homosexual men have been hiding in plain sight and need to be kept an eye on.

Kate was really good.

stephen Ireland is an evil predator who probably learnt lots of tactics from Jimmy Saville. Attacking LGBA and women - let’s shut down any groups that have pesky women. Encourage women to be kind (so we can get on with the job of child abuse).

TRAs just don’t understand how concerned real women are especially when it comes to safeguarding.

Kate Harris from LGB Alliance interviewed on GB news. BBC still nothing.

https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1941954717187252495?t=UOSPgNXusFS80m78Vwzs6g&s=19

'He really has given the police and the public an absolute masterclass in how to deceive and how to engage with children so he can fulfill his darkest fantasies.'

Kate Harris speaks out after the jailing of Surrey Pride founder Stephen Ireland for the rape of a 12-year-old boy.

https://t.co/2g0c26cYlC

Could you archive that link please @fromorbit?

Women's Rights Network - WRN

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT - OR JUST HIDING BEHIND 'INCLUSIVITY'?

There is no sacred caste of men beyond reproach. Ever.
That this even still needs to be said after countless cases is staggering.

As so ably demonstrated in this superb article by JournalistJill
, many women raised their concerns about Stephen Ireland and should have been listened to. Instead, he and his partner hid behind a cloak of legitimacy, high profile contacts and assumed ‘respectability’. Those who should have asked themselves serious questions, failed to do so. Children were terribly harmed as a result.

There should be no more such cases, and yet, we cannot say with any confidence that these terrible lessons will be learned. It appears that a rainbow often confers invisibility.

Thank you to all who spoke out.

https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/01/stephen-ireland-surrey-pride-council-warnings/

Fred Sargeant
https://x.com/FredSargeant/status/1939916971568460124

I first ran into the child rapist Stephen Ireland
StephenAIreland of PrideInSurrey on here around 5 years ago. He was spouting nonsense about Stonewall and I challenged him. He did the usual TRA spin of attacking me based on falsehoods from PinkNews
. Naturally, my responses were fact based while his baseless responses came from the PN smears. Of course, he got ratioed and quickly blocked me when I pointed out that it was he who was using a racist term in his response whilst falsely accusing me to be a racist and of having voted for Trump. I could tell right off there was something wrong about the guy from years of experience arresting skels. Now that's been confirmed by his 30 year sentence for taking sexual advantage of a 12 year and for having kiddie porn on his phone.

Interestingly, Pride In Surrey now calls their founder and CEO "a former volunteer." All their phones and hard drives should be searched.

‘Gloats’ - hardly, pointing out beautifully that the people who erode boundaries publicly (and don’t like to be challenged ) also do so privately, to people too vulnerable to challenge them :(

thats really rubbish. It’s no wonder the public have lost faith in a lot of charities and I say that as someone who works in one

Pride in Wiltshire is though, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to say 're-evaluate your policies'.

I know it is not fit for purpose, we investigated how to get a charity to be investigated for volunteer abuse and unless we could prove financial fraud they were not interested. They are not in any way interested in a charity that abuses people, only if they can be proven to be pocketing money.

The trouble is pride in Surrey it’s not a charity, it’s a CIC and regulation for those is very light touch

and tbh the charity commission isn’t fit for purpose. Slashed to the bone abd endless political appointments to the chairship

The Charities Commission who could just you know, close a charity in one hot second tell them to 're-evaluate their safeguarding and recruitment policies'...honestly, what will it take to get these charities shut down?

That Vivienne person’s death has been prominent on the BBC website for days. (I have no idea who they are.)

Isn't it infuriating. All the red flags - Ireland as the "safeguarding lead", a helpline for children run by Ireland, banning whistleblowers and presumably the Council and police seeing Pride as the "sacred caste" and not able to be criticised. The sexual grooming and abuse of children writ large and enabled by the council and the police

Well done the Telegraph for following this up. Hopefully the rest of the media will pick this up