Paedophile working for children’s charity is convicted
The East London Advertiser reports that man working for Save the Children has been convicted and sentenced to four years for child abuse. The offences related to taking indecent photographs of children.
Sections 45 to 51 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 now deal with indecent photography of children (including those aged 16 or 17). Paedophile often share such information over the internet, and this is how many are caught.
The police have a dedicated unit for this kind of crime – the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOPC). This is the police database, “Childbase” that holds images of children used for pornographic purposes. It has been in the news recently because of the contribution that it has made to prosecuting paedophiles. The database can map a face, make measurements and give the closest match to an image on its database. The computer database cannot say categorically that there is match.
In practice, the computer comes up with a match on very limited occasions. In cases that date back to the 1980’s and before that time, the database is unlikely to come up with a match. Apparently in the 1980’s child pornography was quite legal in certain parts of Scandinavia and Asia and there is a great deal of material from these parts of the world. The police report that generally if they get a match, it is a child whom they know is being abused already. Child pornography flourishes over the internet, but it appears that those who use pornography rarely do it to make a profit. There is a great deal of “swapping” of images between paedophiles. Victims of ritual abuse very often report the presence of cameras at ceremonies, but these images do not seem to be surfacing on “Childbase.” The images of ritual abuse that do surface appear to be staged.
See East London Advertiser 29 July 2009 Paedophile traced working for kids charity is jailed
