Posted on: 17 September 2012
Man sentenced for abusive online chat
"Legal precedent set by Kent Police
A man has today been sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court to three months imprisonment, suspended for two years, for online chat offences under the Obscene Publications Act.
He also received an order to be supervised by the Probation Service for two years.
Kent Police has set a legal precedent in prosecuting a man for making comments graphically describing the abuse of children
during a ‘private’ online conversation."
"‘
In appropriate circumstances, Kent Police will investigate those who
seek to encourage and support [clearly not]
the sexual exploitation of children in the same manner as this case. We will take robust action to both protect children [sic] and bring offenders to justice.’
‘Smith was engaging in online chat,
encouraging [clearly not]
and minimising the issue of child abuse [telling stories].
‘Kent Police's Public Protection Officers are committed to protect children [sic] from
any form of abuse including sexual exploitation.
This includes identifying those who seek to support and encourage [clearly not]
the sexual abuse of children.
‘As a result of this case, the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 can be used for online offences where people engage in
fantasy chat about the sexual abuse of children [in fact, anything]. Such people should not consider themselves beyond the reach of the law. Should we identify similar offences from anyone in the future, we will consider the use of this law [not much though, Dave, you were just harassing this one man], amongst other legislation available to us, to protect vulnerable people from harm [sic].’"
http://www.kent.police.uk/news/latest_news/120907_gavin_smith_s.html
Tuesday, September 18 2012
Convicted paedophile GS convicted for online conversation describing child abuse
"Referring to what he described as S's "incestuous and sadistic" online conversations,
the judge added: "It's quite clear that this was fantasy and you were not describing activities that had happened or you could bring about to happen.
"It is also accepted that this Internet relay chat was in a one-to-one context.
"The chat logs were not published beyond their immediate recipient and there is no evidence that the material would be shared beyond that other party."
Under the Obscene Publications Act, material is obscene if it tends to "deprave and corrupt" those exposed to it [whatever that means].
Judge St John-Stevens said by pleading guilty S accepted his conversations were capable of this [whatever it means].
"It may well be that the person at the other end was feeding their own addiction," he continued. "It may be it was fostering addictions and inclinations or proclivities they never had before. That is the mischief of these sort of activities. [is that it - unevidenced psychobabble?]"
The judge accepted S did not believe he was committing a criminal offence [he was not, in accordance with inchoate crime case law] but said ignorance of the law was not an excuse [it should be, when no case law yet existed]."
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/september/18/convicted_paedophile_smith.aspx
Paedophile GS sentenced for internet torture fantasy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-19627049
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Comment:
You failed Dave, and we all know why - better luck next time (not), you harassing and disinforming zealot.
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Published at 14:35, Monday, 07 July 2014
Man on sex offenders' register after admitting child porn charges
"... also pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene article by joining in an internet chatroom about child abuse ..."
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/man-on-sex-offenders-register-after-admitting-child-porn-charges-1.1146814
