Thursday 6 December 2012

At First, This Seems A Massive Victory ...

PUBLISHED: 00:33, 6 December 2012 | UPDATED: 07:56, 6 December 2012

Paedophiles [sic] who trade child porn [sic] will not be sent to prison: New sentencing laws suggest community punishments

"The Sentencing Council suggested 'high level community orders' for those convicted of trading or possessing child pornography [sic]

The current benchmark jail sentence for those with a small number of images is three months

Only those with pictures of children posing alone or small quantities of images of children engaged in sex acts, but not with adults are not jailed

Criminologist Dr David Green said it was 'sending the wrong message' [Move on, David, we have]"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2243739/New-sentencing-laws-suggest-community-punishments-paedophiles.html#ixzz2EH3go2RW

New proposals give greater focus to impact of sex offences on victims

http://sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk/media/858.htm

Sexual Offences Guideline: Indecent images of children

https://consult.justice.gov.uk/sentencing-council/indecent-images-children

Indecent images of children, 146.1 kB (PDF document)

https://consult.justice.gov.uk/sentencing-council/indecent-images-children/supporting_documents/sexual%20offences_Indecent%20images%20of%20children.pdf

Guidelines_Indecent images of children, 98.2 kB (PDF document)

https://consult.justice.gov.uk/sentencing-council/indecent-images-children/supporting_documents/Guidelines_Indecent%20images%20of%20children.pdf

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Comment:

... but, until the draconian and, we argue, illegally-applied, SOPOs are abolished, one can sometimes wonder which is the worse outcome.

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