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An amnesty for Internet paedophiles?

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Police are considering launching a computer hard drive amnesty as part of a crackdown on Internet sex offenders.
The scheme, which would operate in a similar way to a gun amnesty, would aim to prevent child abuse by getting people who have images of children to volunteer for counseling.
The advantage of combining it with a hard drive amnesty is that it would help gather information for investigations into the porn trade and reduce the number of images of children in circulation. It would also bring potential abusers to the attention of the authorities, rather than driving them further underground

What do you think about this? I really can't see it really working. You may get some dope that thinks that if they hand their hard drive in that they will get let off. Paedophiles are a lot different to people who have handed in their guns, etc. Isn't the gun amnesty anonymous? This amnesty won't be but it will "save the embarrassment" of the sicko pervs going to court.. what happened to name 'em and shame 'em?

I think that Paedophiles will think that they have a lot more to lose if they hand in their hard disks than people handing in their guns. They also said that people with "low grade" images of children should come forward and hand in their drives and also see a psychiatrist to see if they are a potently risk to kids. What is low grade though?? In my opinion people who look at this stuff are a potential risk to kids.

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