vicar with child porn

[legend.isgod]

Just saw channel 5 news .
A vicar in wales with 56,000 child porn pictures going back 30 years , some taken by him .He was thevillage vicar and on the school board.

Hes been jailed for 3 and a half years.
And acording to the channel 5 news , the church has

























































suspended him !!!!!


Didnt he have enough pictures ?????

[legend.isgod]

im justdisgusted mate thats all.its a highly emotive subject and people will disagree on it im sure .

thats life.

nite stewey.

[Ethel]

I most certainly am not being sympathetic to him.

What I said, as anyone can see, is the Church as his employer has to follow proper procedure in order to sack him.

There was a recent case where a rapist in prison sued his landlady, and won, because she had not followed proper procedure in giving him notice to quit - even though she had no idea where he was. He had lied about his previous convictions and failed to inform her of his arrest.

Do you really want this man to get compensation from the Church simply because they failed to follow procedure?

You make no comment of his wife, I see.

[brionon]

And this surprises Who ?

[andy-hughes]

Stewey, I think you are on thin ice using the example of Kim Phuc's picture in this context.

No of course her photograph was not pornographic, it simply captures the horror and futility of war in one striking iconic image, and her nudity - because her clothes and skin were burned off by napalm - is an inherant part of the image.

That in no way equates with anyone taking pictures of naked children in any circumstance, whether as parental souvenirs of childhood, or, as in this case, as a colection of a far more dubious and devious nature.

Moving on - I am concerned that any voice of reason which analyses the facts, as Ethel has done, is seen as some sort of 'defence' when it is patently not intended to be anything of the kind.

Not spitting fire and brimstone and offering to pull leavers or triggers does not equate with sympathy or denial on the part of the poster.