When you read this did you�

[Red-Dwarf]

http://www.orange.co.uk/news/topstories/6820.h tm?linkfrom=hp4&link=ticker_pos_1_link_2&artic le=index

A) Laugh and say "good"

or

B) Feel pity for the peadophile

[VHG]

>Peadophiles and rapists are the scum of the earth

You have to be very careful when using phrases like this.

People use the term "rapist" as though every person accused of rape drags a stranger off the street into a dark alley and rapes them.

Sometimes a couple agree to consentual sex, then afterwards the girl says she was raped (for whatever reason).

Maybe he pushed her further than she wanted to go (as I am sure many many have), maybe she was fine at the time, but regrets it afterwards.

But to tar all men who get accussed of rape as "rapists" in that way is too simplisitc an attitude and encourages people to seek revenge.

[sara3]

I would never sympathise with a paedophile but I don't agree with this.

have you not heard about the paediatrician whose house was attacked because a bunch of "vigilantes" thought he was a paedophile?

strange mentality..

[VHG]

I will give you another example of why we have to be careful about treating all sex offenders in the same way.

A relative of mine works with disabled people.

One disabled young person my relative worked with was fascinated by colour and glitter.

One day he was at an event and a lady was wearing those tights with a glittery sheen.

He was amazed by them and put his hand out to stroke the material (and also stroked her leg of course). He is rather simple and meant nothing sinister.

He was arrested and charged with "assault" (not sure of the exact charge), and he was put on the Sex Offenders Register.

Now if word got out he was on the sex offenders register people could think he had been doing things to children and take the law into their own hands.

So as I said in my last append, most crimes (even murder) cover a range of situations and you can have a blanket attitude to them all.

[VHG]

Sorry my last append should have said

...and you CANNOT have a blanket attitude to them all.

[persianlady]

VHG.....A very sad tale. Sometimes the law is devoid of common sense. The law also does not go far enough to protect children from paedophiles, and whilst I dont condone the actions of vigilantes, I can understand the temptation for some people, especially the victims or their relatives wanting to take the law into their own hands.

[123everton]

If the courts continually fail to give the people justice then the people will make it for themselves.
If lax sentences continue the way they do there'll be more of these cases.
The people want criminals sent to prison, we are a democracy so the people should get what they demand.
Wooly liberals say prison does'nt work, if you don't send them to prison you're going to start to get lynch mobs.
Which do you prefer?

[brionon]

Was he a kiddy fiddler or someone who went to bed with a girl aged 15 years 11 months ? Reprehensible but not Always Paedo.

[horselady]

Can't help but be glad he's no longer existing but mob rule just means they stooped to depraved depths themselves.

[Supernick]

Convicted of unlawful sex with a 15 year old in 2000. Recently 'accused' of molesting the 2 year old child of a local barmaid, which is presumably where this so-called revenge attack came from. I expect that a man who has retreated from society to live in a caravan on the fringes of a run down estate is a pretty easy target for accusation, especially with a history of being on the sex offenders register.
I can't really find out too much about the attack from 2000, for which he sounds rightly punished. But you've got to be seriously worried about the mental capacity of anyone who wields a knife, and kills someone. Society isn't safe from that person no matter what right they thought they might be commiting.