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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BBC NEWS | UK | Man freed early 'committed rape'

The Ministry of Justice..(Does it get anymore Orwellian than a name like that for a branch of government?), has reveled that ....

'A prisoner allegedly raped someone after being released early under a government scheme aimed at easing jail overcrowding'

Well! Surprise! surprise!

Anyone with half-a-brain would have realised by releasing a rapist back into the world you raise the possibility that they will re-offend. Realising them early is just sending the wrong message to both the rapist and the victims of these sub-humans.

One would think that, by adopting such measure as early release, the powers that be are actually courting the idea of social breakdown.




BBC NEWS | UK | Man freed early 'committed rape'

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