Buzzin Disgrace

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, has announced that measures are to be taken to tighten the control of the movement of paedophiles.

One of the changes is the amount of time sex offenders can be banned from travelling abroad!  They should never be allowed to travel abroad.  Once convicted they should never be allowed to own a passport for a start.

Currently, police are only allowed to rely on evidence from the person’s previous six months activities and the risk that the individual poses.  Absolutely ridiculous, as this would be in the case of Glitter, that he has be incarcerated for the last couple of years so he would pose no risk!

The group Ecpat UK, has accused the Government of turning a blind eye on the dozens of British sex offenders who travel abroad.

Allegedly, the UK hasn’t convicted a single person of child sex tourism offences since 2005, there is also no public reporting helpline available.

It was reported on the Ecpat UK site, that earlier this year a 77-year-old, British national was arrested for the 6th time by Thai police since 1977.  The child on this occasion was 8-years-old and the pensioner was on bail at the time that the abuse took place.  In 2007, the children involved were just 9 and 11, but as he is still in Thailand the police do not have to do anything in the UK.

There needs to be an awful lot of changes to the ridiculous laws relating to child sex offences in the UK.  Remove their passports and insert some sort of tracking device that is irremovable on the offenders so that they are traced every minute of the day.  Our children deserve to be protected and the same applies to children the world over, at the moment this is not happening and our children are suffering.

As for the sex offenders register, which was set up to contain the details of every offender convicted, cautioned or released from prison for sexual offences against children, but only if they were convicted after 1997.

As for the amount of time they stay on the register is another ridiculous practice.  If they have been in prison for more than 30 months they are on the register indefinitely, however, if they were only imprisoned between 6 months and 30 months, then they only need to remain on there for 10 years, or 5 years if they are under 18.  Once a paedophile always a paedophile.

The register does throw up some concerns however, for example, teenagers who engage in consensual sex can be put on the register.  There needs to be other arrangements put in place for these circumstances as I am sure we would all agree, this is not considered to be child abuse.

Maybe the best result would be just to leave the convicted paedophile with the parents of that child!