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Sunday, 21 July 2013

CSA Guidelines - An Open Question

"Dear Sir,

I have two queries relating to CSA (Child sexual Abuse) [no you do not, they, predominantly, relate to indecent images of children] which I would be very grateful if you could answer for me.

My first query is regarding Sex Offenders [sic] treatment programmes [sic] and length of sentences.

There seems to be a lot of cases recently where instead of receiving a custodial sentence, offenders are given a suspended sentence so that they can attend a sex offenders treatment programme. [yes, worse than prison, in many cases - don't forget the SOPOs] The reason given, nine out of ten times, is that the sentence that they would have been given would have been too short, with no hopes of starting such a programme. [yes] An example of this is given below ...

I am confused on two different things with this. [yes you are, and even more]

Firstly, these "sentences" [they are sentences] seem to be far too lenient [IYHO]. We are talking here about paedophiles [hardly ever], who by their nature have a healthy [sic, but thank you] interest in children, enough to either go online and look for these images of child sexual exploitation and child abuse/rape [but not all are such images, Richard, the minority, in fact], or to go out and physically abuse [sorry?]. By committing such crimes, getting caught and being sentenced, the guidelines as per the below ..."

http://jerseyric.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/csa-guidelines-open-question.html

Comment:

... but, for now, we will see what the reply (if any) may be ... BTW, who is it to?

The OSC.