“Well said, Kelly and Liz. Paul from Crediton - words fail me. Wake up and live in the real world!”

“Paul-Crediton
I think you'd change your tune if your level-headed, well adjusted children were victims of these predators. Paedophiles may well serve their sentences in jail and have to cope with being outcasts in a world they don't understand but to inflict a life of never-ending nightmares on a child is unforgivable and there is no excuse.
As a victim of child rape and a mother of two young girls I think I am qualified to make judgements against paedophiles.
He served his sentence but mine will never end. Twenty four years later and I STILL have nightmares, and if that isn't enough I have plenty of scars to remind me. He walks free and I never will. Where is the justification in that?
If they don't see what they are doing is wrong then we need to be more alert than ever and any help we get to identify them is welcome. You can't protect your children from unknown faces and I'll go to any lengths to protect my girls from the horrors I endured at the hands of one of these monsters.”

“Liz, Exeter: Show me where I have said paedophiles should be left to do what they want and I will apologise and withdraw. However, it follows that when you cannot quote me saying such a ridiculous thing, that you should apologise for what is, after all, libel.

I am not sticking up for anyone. However, brainless vilification and baying for blood does nothing to address the problem. It only helps to drive paedophile rings even deeper underground and make them harder to detect.

These people are not normal, they know what they are doing, yes, but they are working to an entirely different World view and set of morals. In their eyes, we are the criminals, denying their 'normal' pleasures. Their attitude is akin to that of a very small extremist minority quietly working against the consensus. This is why rehab is so difficult, how can you rehab a criminal who doesn't see themselves as having done anything wrong. They exist in a mutually supportive secret society, indulging their interests while railing against and keeping away from public gaze, all the time wishing for a perverse future when their nature will be accepted by the majority. You cannot judge them as you would yourself or anyone else who is more or less 'normal'.
It also follows that if a person is convinced they are not guilty of a crime, how can conventional penal servitude/punishment work? They are hardly likely to see themselves as 'naughty boys' getting what was due to them, more martyrs suffering a massive injustice. 'Treatment' and management of paedophiles is a massive, complex problem that has barely been addressed. This is partly political, due to tabloid rabble rousing, partly ignorance. It is a problem that has always existed, it is now more visible due to a willingness to make it so, rather than keep it a dirty secret to be hopefully forgotten. This will continue to be the case until a future enlightened government is willing to grasp the nettle.

As for me suggesting conning old people is worse than child rape, where did I say that? Try reading every word (and understanding them) not just edited highlights to support your view of me!

All this I have written is not made up, merely repeating what i have gathered from various newspaper pieces (sensible ones and not tabloid-hysterical) and TV documentaries.

And, before you accuse me otherwise, I am a father and have managed to bring up two relatively level-headed, sensible, well adjusted children.”

“One of the dhl delivery men that comes round our office is a paedophile, well, i dont know for certain, be he sure looks like one !”

“chris is likely doin this for approval from chavs in the pubs he frequents. this is the type of thing that would gain respect from idiots who drink in mcawbers in whipton or the flying horse nice work chris give yourself a big pat on the back mate!!”

“Paul Crediton: I CANNOT believe you stick up for people who rape babies and children. As a mother, your last post makes me truly sick. They cannot help their inclinations?? Oh that's alright then, lets just leave them to it. Paedophiles know exactly that what they do is wrong and disgusting - why do you think they hide on the Internet to exchange their sick images?? Yet they don't seek treatment, they choose to abuse children instead. And to say conning old people is worse than raping children - you should be ashamed of yourself. If you truly believe that, you need help.”

“Liz, Exeter: If that drivel was correct, no paedophile would ever be released from prison. A cure is not possible but coping strategies can be instilled if they are allowed to be. I haven't figures to hand but I am quite sure control can and has been maintained for some offenders.
They are hardly scum, that epithet is fully deserved by some but not someone who cannot help their inclinations. For example, people who choose (as opposed to being compelled by their personality disorder) to con trusting but confused old folk out of their life savings are scum.
Execute them? We don't have the death penalty for anything and that's the way it should be. Paedophilia today, what incurable disorder tomorrow? Eugenics here we come!”

“Paul, Crediton: There is no such thing as a rehabiliatated paedophile! These people are sick in the head and re-offend time and time again, even after years of therapy in prison. They are the scum of the earth and deserve the death penalty if you ask me. Maybe if you actually knew somebody affected by this issue and saw the devastation these animals cause for families, you wouldnt write such drivel!”

“Katy of Devon: I am not denying the public sometimes need to be protected from paedophiles although the way that should be done is, I believe, open to question.
However, I also think that once a paedophile has completed the custodial part of his sentence (as I said before, his sentence will never be completely over), he/she has every right to be protected from the public. In a society where a paediatrician can be attacked and hounded out fof their home because they share a mere syllable with a paedophile, what chance for a possibly rehabiliatated paedophile?
Except for a very few extremely dangerous criminals, perpetual punishment is not part of British law, and perpetual punishment by self-appointed punishers is most certainly not part of it. Open access to the sex offenders regiuster, where a name appearing on it can refer to arelatively minor incident will undoubtedly lead to vigilantism which has no place in a civilised society.”

“British isles ??? Paedo-files more like !”