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Subject: Re: The pedophile?s last lie
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jeanpauljesus <jeanpauljesus@heaven.com> wrote in
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> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:33:32 -0700, Brandon D Cartwright wrote:
>
>> The pedophile?s last lie
>>
>> http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/
> archives/2008/09/07/2003422508
>>
>> Many pedophiles claim their crime is restricted to viewing Internet
>> images, but new research shatters that myth
>>
>> By Phillipa Ibbotson
>> THE GUARDIAN, LONDON
>> Sunday, Sep 07, 2008, Page 9
>>
>> Last month, disgraced glam rocker Gary Glitter was deported from
>> Vietnam after serving a two-and-a-half year prison sentence for
>> sexually abusing young girls. He had fled Britain nine years earlier
>> after receiving a two-month sentence for possessing child pornography.
>>
>> Despite the length and breadth of his subsequent offending career, the
>> apparent ineffectiveness of his brief first sentence hardly rated a
>> mention. Yet just days after his deportation, Scotland Yard issued a
>> warning. The problem of child abuse is a far greater threat to society
>> than first thought, it said, with ?huge? numbers of pedophiles now
>> scouring the Internet.
>>
>> Since 1998, Internet crime involving sexual exploitation of children
>> has risen by more than 400 percent; downloading, possessing and trading
>> or distributing child pornography has also grown rapidly. Ever more
>> sophisticated technologies have facilitated illegal online activities,
>> making it easier to avoid detection.
>>
>> As a result, illegal material can move faster and in significantly
>> greater quantities than before. And it is a highly profitable business:
>> commercial child pornography was estimated two years ago to be a US$20
>> billion industry worldwide.
>>
>> Yet it is not only the quantity that is disturbing. There is also the
>> increasingly extreme nature of the material, as reported in the
>> Internet Watch Foundation?s (IWF) study earlier this year.
>>
>> Detectives for the London-based Child Exploitation Online Protection
>> center are uncovering evidence that pedophiles are concentrating more
>> on pre-verbal victims. Ernie Allen, president of the National Center
>> for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, said recently that child
>> pornography has become ?a global crisis.?
>>
>> Child sex offenders are usually habitual fantasists. They are prone to
>> distorted thinking; dissembling and deceit go with the territory. And
>> it seems they are particularly skilled at disowning and evading
>> responsibility, a trait prevalent among sexual abusers generally.
>>
>> Partly as a result of this, less is known about online child
>> pornographers and their treatment than almost any other group of
>> offenders. And even less is known about the correlation between the use
>> of pornography and hands-on offenses. So despite some recognized
>> advances in policing and containment recently, this lack of empirical
>> knowledge is thwarting the professionals who seek to tackle the
>> problem. The damage, meanwhile, continues to escalate.
>>
>> Psychologists Michael Bourke and Andres Hernandez conducted a study two
>> years ago at a federal correctional institution in the US, in which
>> they compared two groups of men in a voluntary treatment program for
>> sex offenders. All 155 had been sentenced for the possession,
>> distribution or receipt of child-abuse images. Only 40 of them were
>> known to have committed any hands-on sexual offenses previously,
>> averaging 1.88 victims each. The others claimed never to have committed
>> such offenses: Their activities, they said, had been restricted to
>> viewing images.
>>
>> But after participating in an 18-month therapeutic program, a very
>> different picture emerged. It was a picture that not only belied the
>> normal, law-abiding lives depicted by most of these men prior to their
>> arrest, but one that also contrasted with the frequent assertion that
>> such offenders are ?only? involved with images.
>>
>> It emerged that the number of men admitting to hands-on sexual abuse
>> increased from 40 to 131. Their average number of disclosed victims
>> rose to 13.56 (8.7 for the 115 men who had previously denied any
>> offenses). Overall, the number of admitted contact sexual offenses
>> increased by 2,369 percent.
>>
>> Far from being innocent or sexually ?curious? bystanders whose interest
>> was reserved to Internet images, the vast majority of these men emerged
>> as hands-on offenders with longstanding sexual interest. Not only were
>> they significantly likely to have sexually abused more than one child,
>> they were also likely to have experimented with both genders, and a
>> variety of age groups.
>>
>> The other 24 men were offered a lie detector test; some refused. Only
>> two of these men passed, both of whom admitted that with continued
>> opportunity and online access they would have been in danger of
>> molesting a child.
>>
>> Perhaps this should not surprise us. Among other things, online
>> communities provide marginalized individuals with a feeling of
>> solidarity, while at the same time maintaining the illusion of
>> anonymity. Fertile grounds, you might think, for the awakening of any
>> dormant or repressed sexual fantasies. Indeed, perhaps the act of
>> repression creates its own vulnerability, rendering such individuals
>> more susceptible to external triggers.
>>
>> It would be rash to conclude that the Internet causes contact sexual
>> crimes. But the research puts paid to the idea that the desire to view
>> images is easily distinguishable from the desire to act them out. And
>> they also corroborate prior findings: The manifestations of deviant
>> sexual arousal are seldom limited to fantasy. It is opportunity more
>> than anything that dictates how many Internet offenders also rape and
>> molest children.
>>
>> What is beyond doubt is the harm caused. Child abuse images dehumanize
>> children and desensitize offenders, and child/adult sexuality is
>> normalized in the process. Yet such a profitable business will not
>> suffer exposure easily, nor welcome scrutiny.
>>
>> The above survey was among the first of its kind in the US, and
>> doubtless proved discomfiting to many. It has yet to be published.
>> Those experts who have seen it say privately that it could have
>> enormous implications, both for law enforcement and public safety.
>>
>> What is becoming apparent is that the Internet has opened the way for
>> new types of offending. The real issue is not whether viewing these
>> images will make someone a pedophile ? a label liable to vast
>> misunderstandings. The real danger is that those who do so will be
>> encouraged to reoffend ? and that the proliferation of online
>> child-abuse images will dramatically increase the incidence of child
>> abuse.
>>
>> As the IWF has stated, there is urgent need for ?a coordinated global
>> attack on these websites.?
>>
>> This is undoubtedly so. But as Bourke and Hernandez? report shows, our
>> lack of awareness in this area is very dangerous. Particularly, it
>> seems, when it comes to our knowledge of sex offenders. If nothing
>> else, Glitter?s case shows that his initial prison sentence achieved
>> little apart from delaying the next onslaught. Clearly a more
>> enlightened approach toward the treatment of victims and offenders is
>> not only long overdue but vital.
>>
>> This dark underbelly of society has fed on ignorance for too long. It
>> is only through addressing why these things happen, as well as how to
>> stop them, that we might shrink its appetite. This untold damage needs
>> telling.
>
> So, when can we expect this "enlightened" approach to the treatment of
> offenders? Anytime soon?
Glad that you agree that these scum have committed a crime.
> Another sample based only on the prison population and I would venture
> hardly representative. And one study does not make science.
>
> Whatever the intentions, this type of research will simply be used as a
> rationale for harsher punishments for first offenders, especially
> downloaders, despite pleas from senior UK police that jailing first
> offenders simply for internet downloading of relatively mild images
> achieves absolutely nothing other than devastating the offender's life
> and family and tying up the courts.
Cites? No? Didn't think so.
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