Spot A Number Of Problems

NOVEMBER 23, 2012 23:00

Engineer invents device to detect convicted sex offenders

"The father of a 4-year-old boy has invented a machine that triggers an alarm when a convicted sex offender wearing an electronic monitoring anklet approaches.

Dubbed the “electronic anklet detector,” the device rings an alarm when a convicted sex offender wearing an anklet approaches within 30 minutes.

Inventor Hong Gwang-ui, 43, said, “Whenever I watched news on violent sex crimes, I got infuriated as a father,” adding, “After racking my brain over how to prevent sex crimes, I developed this machine.” "

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2012112447908

Mark Williams-Thomas ... Bad, Copper Techniques, Turned Worse

You are no longer a copper, Mark - we require real evidence

November 22, 2012

Trial by Posthumous Innuendo

"Following last night’s episode of ‘Exposure’, the prosecution’s case for the demonisation of Jimmy Savile was completed in the sense that the audience have been invited to give their verdict. No doubt if we fail to give the required verdict, the ‘Ireland v EU’ solution will be applied and we will be given a further installment to wet our appetite for the correct answer. There has been no case for the defence, so all we can do is look at the evidence laid out for us by the televisual prosecutors and see what it amounts to.

The programme opened with the powerful statement ‘We now know that Jimmy Savile was a predatory paedophile [sic] for more than 40 years’.

Not so fast Mr Williams-Thomas! We know that there have been possibly hundreds of allegations that he was – but for those of us looking for facts as opposed to innuendo, we are sitting down waiting for you to make the case to us that he was…"

"I watched last night with an open mind, quite prepared to believe that Savile was a dangerous paedophile that various authorities should have suspected and thus protected children against. Williams-Thomas has had publicity that others could only dream of, ‘hundreds’ of victims coming forward in the wake of his previous programme, hours of television time to develops his theory, and last night was the final result. Along with the rest of the general public, I am invited to draw my own conclusions. The case for the prosecution rests."

http://www.annaraccoon.com/annas-personal-stuff/trial-by-posthumous-innuendo/

Exposure Update - The Jimmy Savile Investigation [29 days remaining, from 22/11/12]

http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=328029

November 22, 2012 11:09 AM

Welwyn Hatfield Council’s deputy leader blasted [sic] over his ‘staggering’ handling of Jimmy Savile at Broadmoor

"Cllr Franey, who was chief executive and general manager at the hospital, responded: ““He had had that access for some time. I didn’t see any reason to challenge what he was doing, no reason at all. Quite frankly he had been part of the organisation for many many years long before I was there.”

He also said: “I had no complaints about Savile during my whole time at the hospital from staff or patients about any inappropriate behaviour.

“He could not go anywhere he wanted, he couldn’t go into patients bedrooms.”"

http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/welwyn_hatfield_council_s_deputy_leader_blasted_over_his_staggering_handling_of_jimmy_savile_at_broadmoor_1_1703399

7:00AM GMT 22 Nov 2012

The Jimmy Savile Investigation: Exposure Update, ITV1, review

"Unlike that first Exposure – which was a tour de force [until the facts were revealed], full of new and shocking and direct and cogent allegations of criminal behaviour – this second one really had nothing new to expose at all. It was a narrative of the case against Savile, rather than being evidence of it. That journalistic thinness was a disappointment – but did serve to show what a brilliant job Williams-Thomas and his team had done the first time around. [until the facts were revealed]"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9694258/The-Jimmy-Savile-Investigation-Exposure-Update-ITV1-review.html

Sunday, October 28, 2012 [true then, truer now]

Savile Unravels: Seeing Right Through the Anti-Savile Hysteria

"There is still no compelling evidence – that is, evidence that amounts to proof beyond reasonable doubt (or anything near it) – that Savile was the serious sex abuser as he is portrayed. And we know from similar hysterias in the recent past – notably over what turned out to be the entirely groundless 'satanic sex abuse' supposed paedophile rings with countless 'victims' – that you can get a great multiplying of allegations even in the absence of any truthful basis. What is more, the spurious 'satanic sex abuse' scandals were in respect of alleged events that were current or in the recent past, whereas the events re Savile are decades in the past and therefore very likely to be the result of 'false memories'. The psychology of constructing fabrications of past events is a human universal, and is rife whenever there is a highly salient seed upon which a construction can be made. A famous and larger-than-life individual who had myriad inconsequential encounters with others is almost bound to be the subject of a plethora of 'false memory'-based supposed incidents."

http://stevemoxon.blogspot.co.uk/2012_10_01_archive.html

7:41am, Thu 22 Nov 2012

Jimmy Savile 'involved in every single element of society'

"Jimmy Savile was 'untouchable'

Criminologist [poor 'documentary'-maker] Mark Williams-Thomas has told Daybreak that Jimmy Savile got involved in every single element of society."

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-11-22/jimmy-savile-involved-in-every-single-element-of-society/

29 Nov 2012 23:06

New sex probe shock: Jimmy Savile cops quiz children's TV presenter

"Detectives said a man in his 80s was interviewed under caution after his home was searched by officers."

"TV criminologist [sic] Mark Williams-Thomas claimed the showbiz figure in the latest arrest was a children’s presenter, who cannot be named for legal reasons." [oh, don't be coy, Mark, or do they just have to be dead, before you will?]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-police-interview-tv-1463489

But I Said ... No, No, No

Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 9:27 am

Psychological treatment for sexual offenders is effective

"UC research shows that psychological treatment for sexual offenders is effective

Research by University of Canterbury (UC) students has found that psychological treatment for sexual offenders is effective and offenders who show more improvement in treatment are less likely to re-offend, UC Professor Randolph Grace said today.

That treatment helped may seem a no-brainer but demonstrating a causal link between prison-based treatment programmes and reductions in re-offending was very challenging, he said. UC research has been the first in the world to demonstrate that specific treatment gains were linked to reductions in recidivism by sexual offenders, he said.

"There’s a lot of debate about the efficacy of psychological treatment for sexual offend"

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1211/S00080/psychological-treatment-for-sexual-offenders-is-effective.htm

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‘Paedophiles anonymous’ can prevent abuse

http://www.west-info.eu/paedophiles-anonymous-can-prevent-abuse/

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Q&A: What Works in Sex-Offender Treatment

http://healthland.time.com/2013/06/10/qa-what-works-in-sex-offender-treatment/ 

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Rapists and child molesters use sex offender programs to gain freedom, expert says

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/rapists-and-child-molesters-use-sex-offender-programs-to-gain-freedom-expert-says/story-e6frg6n6-1226663239413

We All Reap, What You Sow

Monday 19 November 2012

Paedophilia fears 'deter men' from working in childcare

"Men are being deterred from working in childcare because they worry that they may be perceived as being a paedophile [sic], an early years expert has warned.

Male nursery workers told the London Early Years Foundation they felt isolated by the lack of males in the profession.

Speaking to coincide with the launch of the London Network for Men in Childcare, the chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) said high-profile child abuse cases, such as the Jimmy Savile scandal, were affecting public attitudes to male childcarers.

June O’Sullivan made the comments in light of a survey by her organisation that found more than half of nursery workers believe that men are discouraged from pursuing a career in the early years sector."

http://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/1075377/paedophilia-fears-deter-childcare?WT.rss_f=News&WT.rss_a=Paedophilia+fears+%27deter+men%27+from+working+in+childcare+

Jimmy Savile scandal ‘puts men off childcare’

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/jimmy-savile-scandal-puts-men-off-childcare-8328278.html

Will Jimmy Savile case [case?] put men off working in childcare?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/9684111/Will-Jimmy-Savile-case-put-men-off-working-in-childcare.html

7:53AM GMT 19 Nov 2012

Concern over abuse allegations against teachers

Only one in six allegations of child abuse made against teachers and staff result in a suspension, raising questions over the number of malicious allegations made.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9686546/Concern-over-abuse-allegations-against-teachers.html

Over 30 school staff 
sacked in Yorkshire over sex allegations

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/education/over-30-school-staff-sacked-in-yorkshire-over-sex-allegations-1-5150410

West Midlands school staff accused of 377 child abuse incidents

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2012/11/26/west-midlands-school-staff-accused-of-377-child-abuse-incidents-65233-32304219/#ixzz2DJd9Hmf4

School staff sacked over child abuse

http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/doncaster-news/school-staff-sacked-over-child-abuse-1-5163505

Normal 'Sarah's Law' Advert Of The Week

Published: 19/11/2012 08:13 - Updated: 19/11/2012 12:58

Man is jailed for 'sadistic attack'

"A 21-year-old who led a “sadistic attack” on a 63-year-old man after wrongly accusing him of being a paedophile has been jailed.

Bradley Pincheon was sentenced for assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday, having failed to turn up when his co-defendant Toby Cleaver-Wright was given a suspended jail term on November 9."

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Man-is-jailed-for-sadistic-attack-19112012.htm

Monsters From Space

Wednesday November 21,2012

GROWING CALLS FOR SEX OFFENDERS TO BE TRACKED FROM SPACE

"Sex offender Ryan Yates

RENEWED calls have been for sex offenders to be tracked by satellite after it emerged dozens [!!!] of freed rapists and paedophiles [sic]  have reoffended [how?] while under supervision over the past year.

A new report revealed that the police are monitoring record numbers of perverts [offensive and inflammatory]  freed to live in Scotland’s communities.

Figures released yesterday showed that 3,946 sex offenders are currently being managed under the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (Mappa) – 210 more than two years ago."

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/359544

Sex offenders in the community reach five year high

http://www.scottishconservatives.com/news/news/sex-offenders-in-the-community-reach-five-year/2326