3/5/2013 2:19pm
The technology used to catch a Catholic deacon’s child porn
http://americablog.com/2013/03/catholic-deacon-arrested-for-child-porn.html
Mar 5 2013, 4:51pm GMTST
Updated: How Verizon found child pornography in its cloud
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/how-verizon-found-a-child-pornographer-in-its-cloud/
Man arrested for child porn in cloud; viewing on iPad
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/?newsid=3433213&olo=rss
Undercover child porn sting: Six arrested in Hillsborough County
http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_hillsborough/undercover-child-porn-sting-six-arrested-in-hillsborough-county
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Seems A Rather Fundamental Starting Point - Compulsory Polygraphs, For All Complainants, Please
6 March 2013 Last updated at 07:47
Child sex abuse: New policy for police and prosecutors
"An overhaul of how police and prosecutors in England and Wales deal with alleged sexual offences against children is expected to be announced in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal [sic].
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer told the BBC there was an "overcautious" approach [sic] with victims [complainants].
He said the focus was too much on whether the victim [complainant] was telling the truth and not enough on the suspect.
"I am not advocating the test for prosecution should change," he said.
New guidelines for police and prosecutors will be drawn up, and a panel will review cases where alleged perpetrators were not charged.
Mr Starmer is keen the Savile case should serve as a watershed [sic] for the criminal justice system, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21673703
Child sex abuse victims [complainants] treated 'overcautiously' [indeed, we should be much tougher with them]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21673703
Prosecutors ordered to crack down on sex abuse
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/article3706457.ece
The criminal justice response to child sexual abuse: time for a national consensus
http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/articles/the_criminal_justice_response_to_child_sexual_abuse_-_time_for_a_national_consensus/
CPS and ACPO call for national consensus on tackling child sexual abuse
http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_statements/cps_and_acpo_call_for_national_consensus_on_tackling_child_sexual_abuse/
March 6, 2013
Yewtree Unplugged
"Whoever named the Police trawling operation in the wake of the Savile allegations ’Operation Yewtree’ had a sense of humour. The Yewtree is famous for its slow growth and longevity, and its raucously attractive fruit which appeals to little birdies – but contains a deadly poisonous seed. Operation Yewtree has certainly lived up to that.
That seed was spawned yesterday. The private company ACPO – The Association of Chief Police Officers - are expected to approve a ‘National Scoping Panel’ to review complaints of sex abuse not pursued by Police or Prosecutors. ‘Not pursued by Police or Prosecutors’ could merely mean those cases which were reported to Police but not proceeded with because of lack of evidence, the unwillingness of alleged victims to give evidence in court; a nationwide ‘cold case’ review to see whether the guidelines for prosecution of today can be retrospectively applied to historic cases."
"The Home Affairs Committee in 2002 said that: ”A new genre of miscarriages of justice has arisen from the over-enthusiastic pursuit of these allegations”. That was in response to the last ‘moral outrage’ in the late 1990s when many were wrongfully convicted following allegations of historical child abuse in children’s homes and other institutions. There is a sense that the Police have become over cautious as a result, and a new approach is required.
Let that approach be uncontrovertibly professional and discrete; no more TV parading of victims half disguised in the shadows, no more media scoops; no more self appointed experts."
http://www.annaraccoon.com/annas-personal-stuff/yewtree-unplugged/
06 Mar 2013
‘The criminal justice response to child sexual abuse; time for a national consensus’
"Mr Starmer added: “If the criteria for testing their credibility match the characteristics that make them vulnerable [sic] in the first place, we have a fundamental flaw in the approach to credibility.
“This has to change. But to over steer and remove any meaningful filter in these cases would be a great injustice to innocent suspects. My own view is that by changing the focus from one that is solely victim [complainant]-specific to one that more critically tests the suspect as well, while at the same time working harder to explore patterns of behaviour and, where appropriate, links to other cases, we could find an answer."
http://www.acpo.presscentre.com/Press-Releases/-The-criminal-justice-response-to-child-sexual-abuse-time-for-a-national-consensus-1fc.aspx
Wednesday, 6 March, 2013
If cardinal sinners and lordly lotharios float your boat…
"What does it all mean? One obvious and grim interpretation is that victim feminism is more virulent than ever, driving zero tolerance of male transgressions (if that’s what they are) to ever more demented extremes. The good news, perhaps, is that the Lib Dems survived the crisis. Maybe the electorate as a whole doesn’t really give a damn about precisely where His Lordship’s hand was placed, or whether he “inappropriately” suggested going back to his place for a bit of hanky panky, or rumpy pumpy, or whatever words lordly lotharios use for these things. Not that I am advocating “sexual harassment” here. Just a sane sense of proportion. The thought that many voters out there have not abandoned such a sense of proportion is perhaps worth hanging onto. Or is that a case of a drowning man clutching at straws in the midst of all the tsunamis!"
http://tomocarroll.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/if-cardinal-sinners-and-lordly-lotharios-float-your-boat/
Published: 9 hrs ago
Abuse cases review to stop Savile No2 [sic]
"Ex-cop Mark Williams-Thomas, who exposed the DJ, said a new approach is needed and that authorities failed [at what, Mark?] with Savile. He added: “We need to change how police view victims [complainants, Mark] when they come forward.” [a rare moment of honest lucidity, from you, Mark]
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4828417/Hundreds-of-dropped-child-abuse-cases-may-be-reopened-to-stop-more-paedos-like-Jimmy-Savile-escaping-justice.html
Specialist Met unit in London to tackle gang-led child sex abuse [another?]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/06/specialist-met-gang-child-abuse
*****
"We've asked too much of victims", says England's top prosecutor
http://www.trust.org/item/20130729153930-rsmvk/?source=gep&google_editors_picks=true
Child sex abuse: New policy for police and prosecutors
"An overhaul of how police and prosecutors in England and Wales deal with alleged sexual offences against children is expected to be announced in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal [sic].
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer told the BBC there was an "overcautious" approach [sic] with victims [complainants].
He said the focus was too much on whether the victim [complainant] was telling the truth and not enough on the suspect.
"I am not advocating the test for prosecution should change," he said.
New guidelines for police and prosecutors will be drawn up, and a panel will review cases where alleged perpetrators were not charged.
Mr Starmer is keen the Savile case should serve as a watershed [sic] for the criminal justice system, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21673703
Child sex abuse victims [complainants] treated 'overcautiously' [indeed, we should be much tougher with them]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21673703
Prosecutors ordered to crack down on sex abuse
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/article3706457.ece
The criminal justice response to child sexual abuse: time for a national consensus
http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/articles/the_criminal_justice_response_to_child_sexual_abuse_-_time_for_a_national_consensus/
CPS and ACPO call for national consensus on tackling child sexual abuse
http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_statements/cps_and_acpo_call_for_national_consensus_on_tackling_child_sexual_abuse/
March 6, 2013
Yewtree Unplugged
"Whoever named the Police trawling operation in the wake of the Savile allegations ’Operation Yewtree’ had a sense of humour. The Yewtree is famous for its slow growth and longevity, and its raucously attractive fruit which appeals to little birdies – but contains a deadly poisonous seed. Operation Yewtree has certainly lived up to that.
That seed was spawned yesterday. The private company ACPO – The Association of Chief Police Officers - are expected to approve a ‘National Scoping Panel’ to review complaints of sex abuse not pursued by Police or Prosecutors. ‘Not pursued by Police or Prosecutors’ could merely mean those cases which were reported to Police but not proceeded with because of lack of evidence, the unwillingness of alleged victims to give evidence in court; a nationwide ‘cold case’ review to see whether the guidelines for prosecution of today can be retrospectively applied to historic cases."
"The Home Affairs Committee in 2002 said that: ”A new genre of miscarriages of justice has arisen from the over-enthusiastic pursuit of these allegations”. That was in response to the last ‘moral outrage’ in the late 1990s when many were wrongfully convicted following allegations of historical child abuse in children’s homes and other institutions. There is a sense that the Police have become over cautious as a result, and a new approach is required.
Let that approach be uncontrovertibly professional and discrete; no more TV parading of victims half disguised in the shadows, no more media scoops; no more self appointed experts."
http://www.annaraccoon.com/annas-personal-stuff/yewtree-unplugged/
06 Mar 2013
‘The criminal justice response to child sexual abuse; time for a national consensus’
"Mr Starmer added: “If the criteria for testing their credibility match the characteristics that make them vulnerable [sic] in the first place, we have a fundamental flaw in the approach to credibility.
“This has to change. But to over steer and remove any meaningful filter in these cases would be a great injustice to innocent suspects. My own view is that by changing the focus from one that is solely victim [complainant]-specific to one that more critically tests the suspect as well, while at the same time working harder to explore patterns of behaviour and, where appropriate, links to other cases, we could find an answer."
http://www.acpo.presscentre.com/Press-Releases/-The-criminal-justice-response-to-child-sexual-abuse-time-for-a-national-consensus-1fc.aspx
Wednesday, 6 March, 2013
If cardinal sinners and lordly lotharios float your boat…
"What does it all mean? One obvious and grim interpretation is that victim feminism is more virulent than ever, driving zero tolerance of male transgressions (if that’s what they are) to ever more demented extremes. The good news, perhaps, is that the Lib Dems survived the crisis. Maybe the electorate as a whole doesn’t really give a damn about precisely where His Lordship’s hand was placed, or whether he “inappropriately” suggested going back to his place for a bit of hanky panky, or rumpy pumpy, or whatever words lordly lotharios use for these things. Not that I am advocating “sexual harassment” here. Just a sane sense of proportion. The thought that many voters out there have not abandoned such a sense of proportion is perhaps worth hanging onto. Or is that a case of a drowning man clutching at straws in the midst of all the tsunamis!"
http://tomocarroll.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/if-cardinal-sinners-and-lordly-lotharios-float-your-boat/
Published: 9 hrs ago
Abuse cases review to stop Savile No2 [sic]
"Ex-cop Mark Williams-Thomas, who exposed the DJ, said a new approach is needed and that authorities failed [at what, Mark?] with Savile. He added: “We need to change how police view victims [complainants, Mark] when they come forward.” [a rare moment of honest lucidity, from you, Mark]
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4828417/Hundreds-of-dropped-child-abuse-cases-may-be-reopened-to-stop-more-paedos-like-Jimmy-Savile-escaping-justice.html
Specialist Met unit in London to tackle gang-led child sex abuse [another?]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/06/specialist-met-gang-child-abuse
*****
"We've asked too much of victims", says England's top prosecutor
http://www.trust.org/item/20130729153930-rsmvk/?source=gep&google_editors_picks=true
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
The Tighter They Squeeze, The More Will Slip Through Their Fingers
February 23, 2013
Paroled sex offenders disarming tracking devices
"Thousands of high-risk parolees are removing GPS monitors, often with little risk of serving time, because jails are too full to hold them. Some have been charged with new crimes.
RM, a convicted child stalker, was arrested three times in two months after skipping parole and was freed almost immediately each time. After his third release, his GPS alarm went off and he vanished. Police say he subsequently molested two girls; he is back in custody on the new charges.
Thousands of paroled child molesters, rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in California are removing or disarming their court-ordered GPS tracking devices — and some have been charged with new crimes including sexual battery, kidnapping and attempted manslaughter.
The offenders have discovered that they can disable the monitors, often with little risk of serving time for it, a Times investigation has found. The jails are too full to hold them."
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/23/local/la-me-sex-offenders-20130224
House OK’s ‘Justin’s Law’ for repeat sex offenders
http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2013/05/house-oks-justins-law-for-repeat-sex-offenders/
Paroled sex offenders disarming tracking devices
"Thousands of high-risk parolees are removing GPS monitors, often with little risk of serving time, because jails are too full to hold them. Some have been charged with new crimes.
RM, a convicted child stalker, was arrested three times in two months after skipping parole and was freed almost immediately each time. After his third release, his GPS alarm went off and he vanished. Police say he subsequently molested two girls; he is back in custody on the new charges.
Thousands of paroled child molesters, rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in California are removing or disarming their court-ordered GPS tracking devices — and some have been charged with new crimes including sexual battery, kidnapping and attempted manslaughter.
The offenders have discovered that they can disable the monitors, often with little risk of serving time for it, a Times investigation has found. The jails are too full to hold them."
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/23/local/la-me-sex-offenders-20130224
House OK’s ‘Justin’s Law’ for repeat sex offenders
http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2013/05/house-oks-justins-law-for-repeat-sex-offenders/
Unlock Getting Cold Feet, Again?
theForum - Changes (March 2013)
"As a result of the identified needs and potential solution outlined above, and in recognising that how the forum currently operates is not capable of meeting this need, it is necessary for us to make changes to the forum to ensure that it can continue to operate. This is alongside work being done to develop a solution outlined above.
The most significant change is that the discussion of sexual offences is prohibited. This does not mean that people with convictions for sexual offences are banned from using the forum. In practice, people with convictions of all types are able to contribute to the forum.
However, any reference to sexual offences or sexual convictions is not allowed and will be considered a breach of the rules. This means that people with convictions for sexual offences should take particular care not to disclose their offence type, explicitly or implicitly. As a result, if you feel that it is not possible for you to meaningfully contribute without disclosing such details, you should refrain from using the forum. Please be aware that there will be a strict moderating approach taken to this change, and this rule applies across the entire forum."
"We are conscious that a number of people who have significantly contributed to the forum, particularly Forum 2, will be upset, disappointed or distressed by these changes [you are a charity, right?]."
http://unlock.org.uk/staticpage.aspx?pid=285
UNLOCK, The National Association of Reformed Offenders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNLOCK,_The_National_Association_of_Reformed_Offenders
UNLOCK Charity awards winner 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/charity-awards/unlock-charity-awards-winner-2011
Guardian Charity Awards 2011 – UNLOCK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/voluntary-sector-network/2011/dec/21/guardian-charity-awards-2011-unlock
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313454 - UNLOCK
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=313454&SubsidiaryNumber=0
1079046 - UNLOCK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EX-OFFENDERS LIMITED
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"As a result of the identified needs and potential solution outlined above, and in recognising that how the forum currently operates is not capable of meeting this need, it is necessary for us to make changes to the forum to ensure that it can continue to operate. This is alongside work being done to develop a solution outlined above.
The most significant change is that the discussion of sexual offences is prohibited. This does not mean that people with convictions for sexual offences are banned from using the forum. In practice, people with convictions of all types are able to contribute to the forum.
However, any reference to sexual offences or sexual convictions is not allowed and will be considered a breach of the rules. This means that people with convictions for sexual offences should take particular care not to disclose their offence type, explicitly or implicitly. As a result, if you feel that it is not possible for you to meaningfully contribute without disclosing such details, you should refrain from using the forum. Please be aware that there will be a strict moderating approach taken to this change, and this rule applies across the entire forum."
"We are conscious that a number of people who have significantly contributed to the forum, particularly Forum 2, will be upset, disappointed or distressed by these changes [you are a charity, right?]."
http://unlock.org.uk/staticpage.aspx?pid=285
UNLOCK, The National Association of Reformed Offenders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNLOCK,_The_National_Association_of_Reformed_Offenders
UNLOCK Charity awards winner 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/charity-awards/unlock-charity-awards-winner-2011
Guardian Charity Awards 2011 – UNLOCK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/voluntary-sector-network/2011/dec/21/guardian-charity-awards-2011-unlock
*****
313454 - UNLOCK
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=313454&SubsidiaryNumber=0
1079046 - UNLOCK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EX-OFFENDERS LIMITED
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Monday, 4 March 2013
Pornography Doesn't So Much Give Men Bad [sic] Ideas ...
Last updated 11:51 04/03/2013
Porn identity: the science of sex
"Many strangers give Dr William Struthers a quizzical look when he tells them what he does for a living. Some women even turn their eyes away in embarrassment.
The American biopsychologist studies sexual arousal, but specifically what parts of the human brain light up, and what chemicals are unleashed, when people watch porn.
Neuroscience has not only confirmed the old adage that 90 per cent of sex is in the mind - the brain being the control switch for arousal and orgasm - but its research results have become ammunition in the combat zone that is the pornography debate."
""Twenty years ago most men would never have even thought of ejaculating on their partner's face: now it's almost a sexual norm ..." [hahahahahahahaha]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/8378364/
Porn identity: the science of sex
"Many strangers give Dr William Struthers a quizzical look when he tells them what he does for a living. Some women even turn their eyes away in embarrassment.
The American biopsychologist studies sexual arousal, but specifically what parts of the human brain light up, and what chemicals are unleashed, when people watch porn.
Neuroscience has not only confirmed the old adage that 90 per cent of sex is in the mind - the brain being the control switch for arousal and orgasm - but its research results have become ammunition in the combat zone that is the pornography debate."
""Twenty years ago most men would never have even thought of ejaculating on their partner's face: now it's almost a sexual norm ..." [hahahahahahahaha]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/8378364/
Lies, Lies, Lies
March 3, 2013
What would happen if the UK withdrew from the European Court of Human Rights?
"Today’s Mail on Sunday reports that the Home Secretary is to announce “soon” that the Conservative Party’s election manifesto for 2015 will include a pledge to withdraw from the European Court of Human Rights if the party obtains an overall majority.
I thought it would be useful to answer a few basic questions about what this would might mean for the UK. Bizarrely, the article appears alongside the Prime Minister’s opinion piece in the Sunday Telegraph promising that his party would not “veer right” and also “stick to the course we are on“. Talk about mixed messages. Anyway, let’s concentrate on Strasbourg. For a basic introduction to the Court and what it does, see my recent post: No, The Sun, the Human Rights Act is not the EU and David Hart QC’s A bluffer’s guide to human rights courts."
http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2013/03/03/what-would-happen-if-the-uk-withdrew-from-the-european-court-of-human-rights/#more-17449
UK's top judge attacks Government on legal aid cuts and human rights threats
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uks-top-judge-attacks-government-on-legal-aid-cuts-and-human-rights-threats-8520105.html
What would happen if the UK withdrew from the European Court of Human Rights?
"Today’s Mail on Sunday reports that the Home Secretary is to announce “soon” that the Conservative Party’s election manifesto for 2015 will include a pledge to withdraw from the European Court of Human Rights if the party obtains an overall majority.
I thought it would be useful to answer a few basic questions about what this would might mean for the UK. Bizarrely, the article appears alongside the Prime Minister’s opinion piece in the Sunday Telegraph promising that his party would not “veer right” and also “stick to the course we are on“. Talk about mixed messages. Anyway, let’s concentrate on Strasbourg. For a basic introduction to the Court and what it does, see my recent post: No, The Sun, the Human Rights Act is not the EU and David Hart QC’s A bluffer’s guide to human rights courts."
http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2013/03/03/what-would-happen-if-the-uk-withdrew-from-the-european-court-of-human-rights/#more-17449
UK's top judge attacks Government on legal aid cuts and human rights threats
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uks-top-judge-attacks-government-on-legal-aid-cuts-and-human-rights-threats-8520105.html
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