I can see where you're coming from, Rob. I do think parents have a big responsibility in knowing where their children are and I don't agree with groups of vigilantes going mob handed after people, but I do believe we have to take the problem of paedophiles very seriously. Personally, for those who have been found guilty of sexual abuse on children, I would like to see tougher sentences, like life and it should mean life cos they shouldn't be allowed back on the streets to abuse any other child.

Depends on the offence brian

 

As Rob said someone can go on the sex offenders register for p***ing in the street, I don't think he should be locked up for life simply because he took a leak in a shop doorway

 

Downloaders of child porn and convicted abusers/rapists/killers yes

 

 

Not advocating to throw away the key for peeing in the street,but sex attacks on kids is a different matter.

Not advocating to throw away the key for peeing in the street,but sex attacks on kids is a different matter.

 

Oh absolutely but if this law is to come into force then the whole thing needs to be reclassified or we could have parents being told a guy is on the register who lives a few doors down the road and he then gets the $h!t beaten out of him when all he did was p*** in a shop doorway at 3am after a night out clubbing

Better an innocent man get a beating than an innocent child be abducted/raped/killed

 

What a ridiculous statement. Two wrongs dont make a right mate... The point of the law is that it's supposed to protect everyone....

 

I reckon the best way to do this is to keep convicted child sex offenders under a system where they are tagged by GPS for the rest of their lives (and that's pretty easy to do, just about every mobile phone these days has a GPS tracker in it..) and have to conform to curfews, etc.. If they aint where they're meant to be at a certain time, pull the b/astards in and lock 'em up again....

i think chemical castration is the answer.... remove their sex drive then let them get on with their lives (after appropriate punishment). many convicted were holding down decent jobs (the notion that they are 'dirty old men in macs' is wrong) many were professional people.

I would actually support this if I thought that people could be trusted not to act in a totally vigilante-esque manner, thus wasting even more police time when they're called out to break up disruptions and mayhem caused by these bloody "have a go" idiots... <_< I also remember the time when the News of the World printed photos of "paedophiles" (a great many were actually nothing of the sort..) in their paper a few years back. The instances of innocent people being mistaken for the people in the badly reproduced photos in that crummy rag were fukkin' legion....

 

The problem with all this is that the "Sex Offenders" register actually covers a great deal of ancillary offences as well.. Did you know that if you take a pish in the streets you could potentially be put on the sex offenders register for supposedly "exposing yourself"...?

 

The Daily Mail did that as well didn't they? And weren't The News Of The World responsible for that whole paediatrician fiasco?

 

I don't why they don't just have a seperate register for paedophiles. When most people hear someone is on the Sex Offenders register nowadays they see it as a euphemism for them being a paedophile, but that's not exactly true as you say people can be on there for being caught having a slash in a public street.

 

While there is definitely a case for letting parents know about these dangerous men being around, the vigilante mentality gets ridiculous. If you remember Monkey Dust, their Paedofinder General character was very good at sending that sort of attitude up.

 

As I said earlier, I think there should be a seperate register for paedophiles and rapists.

 

 

i think chemical castration is the answer.... remove their sex drive then let them get on with their lives (after appropriate punishment). many convicted were holding down decent jobs (the notion that they are 'dirty old men in macs' is wrong) many were professional people.

 

I reckon that's a good idea to be honest, I'd go along with that. And that's correct, a great many Paedophiles are actually supposedly 'respectable' people (the scandals involving Catholic Priests being one particular example I can think of off the top of my head..)...

I don't why they don't just have a seperate register for paedophiles. When most people hear someone is on the Sex Offenders register nowadays they see it as a euphemism for them being a paedophile, but that's not exactly true as you say people can be on there for being caught having a slash in a public street.

 

While there is definitely a case for letting parents know about these dangerous men being around, the vigilante mentality gets ridiculous. If you remember Monkey Dust, their Paedofinder General character was very good at sending that sort of attitude up.

 

As I said earlier, I think there should be a seperate register for paedophiles and rapists.

 

Or indeed for these saddoes who go around flashing.. while it's not exactly very nice, it's hardly in the same ballpark as a predatory paedophile. I dont think that people who download adult Porn (of any variety..) should be lumped into this category either...

 

Chris Morris did a fantastic send-up on "Brass Eye" a few years back of the whole 'paeodmania' thing...

 

if its helping Families, then yes its worthy of being a charity :D