Child Porn So Widespread In UK- Police Can’t Prosecute Everyone
Carol Adl
YourNewsWire.com
October 25, 2017
A British police chief has warned that there is a “horrifying” number of people viewing child sexual abuse images online.
Dave Thompson, chief constable of West Midlands police, made his comments amid suggestions that paedophiles who view indecent images should not be charged unless they pose a physical threat to children.
Society needs to discuss the issue, which is about “much more than law enforcement,” Thompson told the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee “I am staggered by what I see in terms of the operations the force carries out on the peer-to-peer sharing of images and more sensitive covert policing techniques we carry out,” he said.
RT reports:
“The amount of men in this country who appear to show an active interest in his area is horrifying and the scale of it, I think, takes my breath away.
“There is a really big discussion I think, as a society, about how we deal with this, that’s much more than law enforcement. Of course, it makes us all feel deeply uncomfortable to think that people who have that involvement in those activities should in any shape or form escape punishment. But the scale of it is just absolutely huge,” added Thompson.
The National Crime Agency estimated in 2015 that there were up to 750,000 men in Britain who were interested in having sex with children. This suggests that as many as one in every 35 adult males is on the pedophile spectrum.
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