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Sarah's Law? Bring it on! But not too strong...
BillieTheBot
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Not my message, but that of the Government. According to the Beeb;
"Parents may get new powers to check if people with access to their children have paedophile convictions. The scheme could be rolled out across England and Wales if trials in four regions are successful. It will allow single mothers to ask police whether a named individual - such as a carer or new partner - has child sex convictions. Campaigner Sara Payne said the scheme was a step in the right direction but she still wants full disclosure. Family members or neighbours who regularly look after children could also be checked under the new proposals."
For years, the News of the World has been campaiging for the introduction of Sarah's Law. The above proposal looks like a slightly watered-down version of what Sarah Payne's family have wanted to see all along. Ironically enough, the plans were confirmed by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, in an article she wrote for today's News of the World. I can't find the full article on their website, and there's no way I'm going to be seen dead buying a copy of the News of the Screws, or "Boobs, Bums & Cunts", as my deceased grandfather used to call it.
Okay, what do you think of all this? I think it's a pretty bad idea, to be honest. I really don't see what need there is to give the public these sorts of powers. Checking whether teachers haven't got convictions for paedophilia is one thing, letting everyone make checks like this at a whim is quite another. It also, in typical New Labour style, is designed to make us all more suspicious of one another. Whatever happened to trusting someone?
Over to you, ladies and gentlemen of the P&D jury...
"Parents may get new powers to check if people with access to their children have paedophile convictions. The scheme could be rolled out across England and Wales if trials in four regions are successful. It will allow single mothers to ask police whether a named individual - such as a carer or new partner - has child sex convictions. Campaigner Sara Payne said the scheme was a step in the right direction but she still wants full disclosure. Family members or neighbours who regularly look after children could also be checked under the new proposals."
For years, the News of the World has been campaiging for the introduction of Sarah's Law. The above proposal looks like a slightly watered-down version of what Sarah Payne's family have wanted to see all along. Ironically enough, the plans were confirmed by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, in an article she wrote for today's News of the World. I can't find the full article on their website, and there's no way I'm going to be seen dead buying a copy of the News of the Screws, or "Boobs, Bums & Cunts", as my deceased grandfather used to call it.
Okay, what do you think of all this? I think it's a pretty bad idea, to be honest. I really don't see what need there is to give the public these sorts of powers. Checking whether teachers haven't got convictions for paedophilia is one thing, letting everyone make checks like this at a whim is quite another. It also, in typical New Labour style, is designed to make us all more suspicious of one another. Whatever happened to trusting someone?
Over to you, ladies and gentlemen of the P&D jury...
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The fact the NOTW have been campaigning for this speaks wonders.
I read the book on this a good year or two ago and I came to the vague conclusion of, if Sarah's parents would have known that there was a peodofile in the area, might they have been a bit more careful about letting her out? Might she still be alive now?
Surely if it's going to save one more child's life from the hands of a sicko it is worth it?
(though you might change my mind!)
And is it?
If you knew that there was some sicko living down the road from you, would you let your child play out on the street without you with them? I certainly wouldn't. Yet if I was unaware of the sicko down the street then yes, I don't see why I wouldn't let them out.
I just think children are so limited with their freedom nowadays because parents are so scared at who/what is out there. By the parent knowing who and what is out there, in their local area is it not going to give children get a bit more freedom back and get back to the way it was and should be with kids out and about and parents not sat at home shitting themselves?
A light-hearted take on things
People convicted of Paedophile offences should spend the rest of their life behind bars. They are worthless pathetic individuals who by their actions forfeit their right to freedom.
Keeping the vile scum locked up would mean laws such as this are not necessary and our children would be safer.
But people probably live near enough to a sec offender or a relative of a sex offender to start worrying, so we end up with the result that kids are no longer allowed to play out.
I read an article last year in the Leicester Mercury - so not scientific - but it compared a child, his father, and his grandfather and how far they were allowed to play from home, with a graph representing it. The child? To the end of his street. The father? All over his local town / village / suburb. The grandfather? All over the county, near enough. And he had to walk everywhere.
My dad was the same when he lived in Ireland, they literally would just go wherever without their parents worrying.
But people probably live near enough to a sec offender or a relative of a sex offender to start worrying, so we end up with the result that kids are no longer allowed to play out.
I read an article last year in the Leicester Mercury - so not scientific - but it compared a child, his father, and his grandfather and how far they were allowed to play from home, with a graph representing it. The child? To the end of his street. The father? All over his local town / village / suburb. The grandfather? All over the county, near enough. And he had to walk everywhere.
My dad was the same when he lived in Ireland, they literally would just go wherever without their parents worrying. (though some protestant teenagers hung him over a railway bridge when he was 6, so maybe in areas with religious tensions a little caution is ok)
They should just lock paedophiles and rapists up, and keep them locked up. I think its a bit silly to assume that people who are into violent or perverted stuff just suddenly realise their wrongs and are "cured". Obviously not all people on the sex offenders register are there for those reasons, but those who are should stay behind bars.
Apparently some people are not aware that a paedophile is capable of travelling between areas. How is this law going to protect parents from nonces living 10 miles away?
Instead of course the government is gradually running the probation service into the ground so they can get private companies to do it. Group 4 looking after sex offenders anyone?
I don't think the government is the only thing responsible for protecting kids. I think parents have a right to leave their kid with who they want and trust. I got dropped off at the neighbour's a few times and nothing ever happened to me.
Plus, a lot of abuse is actually from family members. The whole "stranger abducting your kid" thing isn't all that common, thats why its news. The media picks up on uncommon things like strangers abducting kids because its rare. If they did articles on every kid who was abused by a family member, teacher, or other person with a qualification in childminding, the newspapers wouldn't have space for any other news. Sad but true
totally agree.