Would you attend a peaceful protest if a convicted paedophile moved into your street?

[thefourgp]

I’ve never attended anything similar before and I’m in two minds about going. He was convicted (I’ve read the newspaper articles which show his photo) and has been released after serving half his sentence. I don’t know if he owns the property but he’s moved in with his wife who stood by him. There’s a peaceful protest being arranged. Would you go?

@isadorapolly

If someone like that moved down my road he wouldn’t be there for long, I would make sure of it and I don’t mean I’d get him to move somewhere else.

I think you need to find some scary men who can make him disappear

So your advocating violence?

No I wouldn't. They have to live somewhere. I'd just avoid him. My 7 year old doesn't go anywhere alone anyway.

So, those advocating vigilante justice, you’d be so upset about a paedophile moving into your area that you’d be prepared to commit a crime, even murder in some cases over it? How safe do you think your kids are going to be in the care system while you’re in jail and the paedophile you attacked walks free?

You don’t have to like it, I wouldn’t, but he does have a right to live among us whether you like it or not. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

But not wanting to become a vigilante thug does not a pedo sympathiser make....

Be more worried about the ones you don't know.

This!
Even if you fit him removed then what about the other ones in your street that haven’t been caught yet?

I completely understand why you’d want to do it as I would hate to know there was a convicted peadophile near me but id doubt it will achieve much and as other PPs have said if you have him moved away then you will be putting other children at more risk as they might bit be aware of who he is.

And let’s be honest here. The vast majority of people who attend these protests aren’t really doing it for justice. They’re doing it because they’re every day thugs looking for a ruck, and protesting over a pedo gives them some street cred.

But they’re the types of people who get into punch ups on a Friday and Saturday night, football violence, go home and abuse and beat up their wives and kids. Some of them have probably already done time and some will even be sex offenders in their own right who just haven’t been caught yet.

Don’t kid yourself that all the people protesting are just worried for your children. They aren’t.

If he gets chased out he'll move somewhere else, likely change his name and then no one will be able to keep a track of him. Which would seem to massively increase the risk.

An increased risk to society overall, but presumably the protesters wouldn’t care about that, as long as he was no longer in their neighbourhood. Children live everywhere, so what the protesters are saying is “go and live near someone else’s child where they may not know the situation and therefore won’t know the risk”. How hideous.

We had a convicted peado on our estate growing up. His wife never knew about it until she found out he’d been abusing her daughter for 5 years since she had been a baby.

So twice he had been caught and they relocated him less than 10miles away and the main town centre was in the middle so we used to still see him all the time. I always think how awful that must have been for the mum to see him all the time.

No I wouldn't. What the fuck would that achieve? He has to live somewhere. And doing this will mean he is driven out and goes underground. Where people don't know. And you are aware that the chances of a paeodophile living near most people is really quite high right? It's down to you to keep an eye on your kids same as you always should. Not purge the neighborhood of every danger you can see. Because you won't see every danger present there anyway.

I wouldn't attend a protest as a) what would it achieve and b) the risk people attend for argy bargy or worse. I would help create and distribute flyers through neighbourhood doors so everyone had the same knowledge we did.

Also knowledge is power. You know who he is and where he is and can warn your dc accordingly. Think of all the ones you have no idea about.

Absolutely I would, he wouldn't be living near my kids. I'd hope the community drove him out.

Disgusting nonce

I wouldn't attend. Though if he failed to observe any of the Covid 19 restrictions I would report it to the police straightaway, same if he drives and fails to follow any motoring laws. To make sure the police were visiting him as often as possible or that he would be back inside for breaching bail conditions.

It’s you that is a sympathiser when you minimise abuse as “fiddle”
In what world is believing pardophiles are a risk to society and should be kept in prison for the rest of their lives and being utterly unbothered about vigilante justice towards them sympathising?
That is utterly ridiculous.

The rest of us are outraged by the rape of children but don’t the majority don’t agree with mob rule or minimising
Dear god.
I am just as outraged as everyone else.
I think more people than you think do agree with or at least are unbothered by vigilante justice when it comes to paedophiles.

And I think you’d be surprised how many of those people will be well spoken, well dressed, respectable people.
They won’t all fit the narrow perception you seem to have.

Absolutely not minimising at all.
It’s unfortunate it was perceived that way.

What's the peaceful protest consist of OP? Do you mean people are going to stand outside his house with placards etc?

I wouldn't be happy living next door to a paedophile and I don't blame your neighbour for not wanting her granddaughter to play in the garden - has she sought advice from the police about keeping the child safe?

I wonder why he and his wife have moved in somewhere where his crimes are well known?

Lets be honest people have a right to protest. I wonder how it is decided where they live and how much goes into it. I wouldnt be happy but knowing is good. Curious to know what the message of the protest is.

So you’d be ok about this paedophile living near someone else’s kids then? As long as he doesn’t live near yours that’s not a problem then eh?

what about the paedophiles you don’t know about?

What about the members of your extended family who might be paedophiles?

You don’t know about those, and you will know more paedophiles than this one, so does this one represent them all then just because he’s been named?

Vigilante groups are the biggest pain in the arse ever, when trying to keep children safe from paedos.

I used to have to house them too, and we took great pains to make sure they were far away from schools, shops, playgrounds, and anywhere where kids would gather.

The police knew EXACTLY where they were and monitored them all the time, along with other agencies.

Then some pillocks would find out and start hounding the peado. Who would then promptly do a moonlight flit and be lost to the police and other agencies keeping watch over them.

Just because you may not know exactly what goes into preventing these monsters reoffending, don't presume that nothing is being done and take matters into your own hands. YOU WILL MAKE IT WORSE!

Not going to admit your use of the word 'fiddle' minimises abuse then MrsJunglelow

I wouldn't have expected anything more from you tbh. Too busy being angry and insistant that you are right and others are wrong to actually listen.

Perfect example of how mob justice escalates. Those types never back down and just get more wound up until it descends into violence.

In my experience, such things tend to be organised by the violent, volatile and thick. So no.

@howaboutholly

In my experience, such things tend to be organised by the violent, volatile and thick. So no.

This^

@copperoliver

They have to live somewhere. Not if this country was run right, if it was they would all be hanged and good riddance to the lot is them.

This is so ridiculous. We didn't hang paedophiles even when we had the death sentence.

@Indoctro

Absolutely I would, he wouldn't be living near my kids. I'd hope the community drove him out.

Disgusting nonce

But you’d be ok about him being driven out of your area to be near other people’s kids?

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult

*No.

At least you know where he lives and that he is being kept an eye on.

They have to live somewhere.*

I agree with your view they have to live somewhere but I admire your ill founded confidence they are being monitored. Very few are

I wonder whether the people who would attend such a protest have made any efforts in the past to encourage a change in the laws around this? Researched the issues and spent time campaigning for changes? Or is it only time to get involved (in a manner which won't achieve anything) when the problem lands on your doorstep?

@BananaPop2020 I appreciate what you're saying and respect the police have a difficult job. However if you really believe they can be fully monitored by authorities that is incorrect.
Do you work with paedophiles? In my job I come across many. They are everywhere and rarely get adequate punishment through the courts. I've seen men who have raped babies stand up in court and show no remorse and sadly these urges don't just disappear. They remain a threat to children forever. How many paedophiles reoffend? Many. And many paedophiles in court today have previously been in court for similar offences. I accept they need to live somewhere but preferably that would be locked in jail with the key thrown away.
Unfortunately it is the lack of suitable punishment that has led people to take such vigilante action, whether this is right or wrong. At least in jail we know they'll get a hard time as even criminals have morals.

There seems to be a rise in the number of these kind of protests, lots of sting type groups on Facebook live streaming the protest too. In fact, near me one group messaged a man pretending to be a 14 year girl, and he sent back sexually explicit message and dick pics. Old dirty bastard was over 70 as well He basically got a smack on the wrist from the courts and his wife is standing by him. Its not his first offence either. The law is strange sometimes.

However, I agree that I would rather know about them than have them living in the shadows.