Judge feels Probation is best for NI child porn officer

BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Probation for child porn officer

(From the BBC report)

A policeman who downloaded indecent images of children has been given three years probation.

The offence came to light, after William Neil McGonigle, 39, was caught trying to photograph two schoolgirls changing at a leisure centre.

Judge Norman Lockie told a court in Antrim on Thursday that McGonigle should be given the opportunity of a treatment programme for sex offenders.

Judge Lockie stressed "the public can be assured by me this is not an easy option", and nor was it simply "a slap on the wrist".

That is probably not how victims of sex crimes would see it!

See also here and here and here.

Also here too!

Patterns.

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