Suspended sentence for child abuser

4th August 2009

The Salisbury Journal reports how a paedophile was found guilty of 21 offences relating to child pornography. He was given a 12 month sentence suspended for two years. 

The police have a dedicated team 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. The database can map a face, make measurements and give the closest match to an image on its database.

In practice, the computer comes up with a match on very limited occasions. 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.

See Salisbury Journal 4 August 2009 Suspended sentence for paedophile