Monday 11 August 2014 Updated: 01/09 12:29
Pervert [sic] trapped in underage sex sting
"The girl’s profile, on which her real name was used, said she was 14, and included a picture which was obviously of a school-age girl.
In fact, although the picture was of a real 14-year-old, it was a fake profile which had been placed on the site by a man called John Stokes, a member of a group calling itself Letz Go Hunting."
http://www.leamingtonobserver.co.uk/2014/10/14/news-Pervert-trapped-in-underage-sex-sting-114219.html
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The Impossible Situation, in law ...
http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/fact_sheets/sexual_offences
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/15
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/h_to_k/inchoate_offences
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/47
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Shivpuri
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What we should like to see happen ...
We want inchoate offences, inapplicable, in the case of no real minor - ideally, the 'impossibility allowed clause', to be removed, for all 'offences'.
We want it made an offence, for a person, to carry out an illegal activity (entrapment and encouragement, in these cases), without direct, operational, contact, with the relevant authorities.
The OSC
