louis theroux- peadophiles in therapy

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Anyone going to watch - looks interesting?

There's a very good charity called 'Stop It Now' who operate to reduce child sexual abuse by raising awareness with professionals, counselling child victimes, and crucially, offering a telephone support line for men who are experiencing attraction to children but do not want to offend. I recently attended their training and it was excellent - I agree that more preventative work is key to this, because the system is RUBBISH at the moment.

A far more pertinent issue to me than what we do with convicted paedophiles is how we increase the conviction rate - in this country it is shockingly low, estimates suggest that under 1% of child sex crime results in a conviction - that is criminal and a re-abuse of the children affected.

Under 1%?!!!

so not much point in continuing with my case then really is it?!

Do you think this is mostly because it's a case of an adult against a childs word?

Sorry Easyeggs, I didn't inted for my comment to be demoralising - all the very best with your case and I so hope that you get the outcome that is most helpful for you now.

I do think that the low conviction rate has something to do with the credibility of child testimony versus and adult account - not that it should, but it is still a determining factor in how likely it is that the CPS will prosecute. But I also think that there has been a general loss of advocacy skills within the CPS and that there is a reluctance to go forward with cases with low chances of conviction - to the detriment of child sex offence victims.

There is a lot to respect about our legal system IMO but there is such a minefield in prosecuting sex offence cases that common sense seems to get lost sometimes, and sadly the message given to the victim is that even though they may have been believed, it is still not enough.

Oh no really nothing to be sorry for namechange! It just seems beyond belief that it is that low. I knew it was low but not that bad, the legal system in this country leaves a lot to be desired

Anyway almost getting completely off the actual op here so I'm off

"All of them I have encountered are average-or above intelligence people, not impaired, who are the world's most manipulative and cunning liars who prey upon the world's most vulnerable people and it makes me sick"

YES YES YES expat

My experience of the legal system however is very odd

Odd ( and i would love someone to explain this to me as otherwise i shall always wonder)

1. Why my abuser had a shit hot legal team and head of large city chambers representing him. His 'team' worked with him in the year preceding the court case

YET

I met my barrister and solicitor 5 minutes before entering the courtroom and was not allowed to discuss ANY details of the case with them

sorry to sideline here but HOW is that fair? I dont get it?

Okay, well, then, Suzi, I try to get into law school with this in mind.

If you are going to extend human rights then they need to extend to everyone, victim and perpetrator.

And I need to broaden to extend all viewpoints or I cannot be a good solicitor.