Monday, October 20, 2014

UK: Thousands of paedophiles will escape ANY punishment

Labour's shadow health secretary Yvette Cooper attacked
the 'disgraceful' policy which left children at risk
Thousands of paedophiles will escape any punishment because the police cannot cope with the scale of online abuse, a senior officer revealed today.

Keith Bristow, the director general of the National Crime Agency, said it was an 'uncomfortable' reality that officers needed to concentrate on the worst abusers.

Mr Bristow said this meant some paedophiles watching online child abuse would inevitably escape justice.

His remarks sparked a furious response tonight – with Labour accusing him of perusing a 'disgraceful' policy which would see the 'vast majority of people downloading vile images' escaping justice.

Mr Bristow said 50,000 people access indecent images of children each year and the police cannot arrest all of them.  (more...)


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