4What channel?
Mate, it was absolutely horrific. They followed an undercover officer who was trying to capture paedophiles. At the start he created a fake profile on a chat site, this was just a regular chat site, not even on the dark web. Literally within seconds he had loads of people asking for pictures of his daughter, offering pictures of their kids etc.Can someone give us a recap for those not near a telly?
500000 people accessing criminal child abuse pictures and videos is a tsunami of damage.Sounds like when I had CEOP training as a teacher. They showed us pedos in action online and most of it was on normal social sites (Club Penguin and Bebo at the time).
Nothings left me as shook as that days training did.
It’s supposed to be part of many sexual health prevention orders but police don’t have the resource to ensure these are followedI always assumed that paedophiles were paedophiles regardless of the internet but I do wonder now how much the internet, due to its ease has increased the sharing of and people involved in paedophilia.
I wonder whether in my lifetime there will be mandatory licensing to access the internet
500000 people accessing criminal child abuse pictures and videos is a tsunami of damage.
Much better access to charities that help at an early stage is a real necessity in my opinion and more resource and tougher and more consistent justice for victims.
The pc at the end was interesting when she talked about those that would keep offending and those that a knock at the door would mean they stop. There’s something in that I think
I always assumed that paedophiles were paedophiles regardless of the internet but I do wonder now how much the internet, due to its ease has increased the sharing of and people involved in paedophilia.
I wonder whether in my lifetime there will be mandatory licensing to access the internet
I think that’s absolutely rightTo be a bit distant from this topic for a bit, I think there’s definitely a sliding scale of offender, from people literally taking and abusing kids and uploading it to the net, to dirty old men to just access it, to young adults still viewing older teen porn/revenge porn, to kids sending each other noods. Each needs a slightly different approach I think. Most of the latter categories would probably suffice with a slap on the wrist. The former need locking up.
I think you need to tackle the actual abuse very seriously with undercover work and the like.
I think the sad answer is paedophilia is far more prevalent than we like to think, but acting on it is very rare. The Internet has reduced the barrier in terms of risk and what we’re seeing now is a load of pedos being caught who in the past would’ve just been the dirty old man on the estate staring too long at the schoolgirls.
Every cloud eh?This was done for a good few years on the American series ‘To Catch A Predator’ where media worked in conjunction with the police and a group that specialised in baiting paedos. The interviews done between the host and the ‘predators’ were mind blowing.
In my case the only reason we could buy our current house was because the couple divorced after the bloke viewed child porn on his son’s laptop for over 5 years before he was caught. The police initially went for the teenage son before the dad confessed what he’d done.
That’s an interesting point about potentially people looking rather than actingSickening but unsurprising. Dunno if the internet has encouraged paeodphillia or just made it easier for the pervs to communicate and share, rather than having to source pleasure from their own social network or family, We all seem to be more aware of it these days and hopefully, rather than it being ignored or dealt with behind closed doors, more of it is being reported and dealt with. Good to see the police are being pro-active and trying to actively bait and catch these people - and was nice to see them offering some welfare to the plod who had to deal with it.
My brother in law was in the police since he left school-think child protection was for 19-20 years.When I was looking at going back to Uni it was a toss up between artificial intelligence and computer forensics. What put me off forensics was hearing stories of people who worked for the police going through pedos computers and the shit they’d have to watch (to confirm they’d found a relevant file). Apparently 5 years is a good stint as a police computer forensics guy.
My brother in law was in the police since he left school-think child protection was for 19-20 years.
Unfortunately his wife (my Mrs sister) it really affected in a bad way. At only 35 she had become a recluse. Wouldn’t even answer the door/phone unless she knew it was us and would then ring back. It took her years to recover-luckily she has now moved on and has another job which she enjoys.Guys a hero. Bet he’s seen some shit, hope he has someone he can unload on.
One of the officers made some interesting comments on the facebook style paedo hunters. Basically that while some of them just gather evidence and hand it over a lot of them just want 5 minutes of fame and do more harm than good.I once met a guy who spent his spare time working with the police as a 'paedo hunter' some of the things he told me were horrific but he was an odd bloke too. I asked him something like "wouldn't you rather police were properly resourced and you didn't have to bother" he replied by saying "no I enjoy it, I really like the look in their eyes when they know they've been caught"
One of the officers made some interesting comments on the facebook style paedo hunters. Basically that while some of them just gather evidence and hand it over a lot of them just want 5 minutes of fame and do more harm than good.
That was the gist of what he said. Collecting information and handing it over can help. Arranging to meet someone and streaming it on facebook is a problem.If they really cared about child protection they would hand it over to the police at the earliest opportunity as he said some do.
That was the gist of what he said. Collecting information and handing it over can help. Arranging to meet someone and streaming it on facebook is a problem.
Yeah, like the cretin who attacked a pediatrician because he thought that 'pediatrician' was the correct word to describe a kiddy fiddler.Yeah not sure about those pedo hunters. Been more than one example of misidentification, vigilantism, or preying on vulnerable people.
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