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I think you all need to put this case into context.
If you hit a child with a car and the child dies, you will get about 6 months.
If you hit a child and break the skin you are looking at 18 months to 3 years.
To make allegations that Mr Lanhgam would turn into a child kidnapping murdering rapist after viewing literature and images on the internet is crazy.
Are we going to say next that reading a book by the Marquis De Sade turn you to sadism?
You talk about the victims of these people; well most of them are from overseas and in countries where such sites are legal.
In the EEC such sites have been banned for many years.
I do believe the public money use to keep Mr Lanhgam in prison could have been better spend on things like better detection of such sites.
I for one am getting a bit sick of hearing mothers moan on about paedophiles and at the same time fatting there kids up and telling them its ok to play video games all day.
I am sick of parents parking on double yellow lines outside schools or using drugs in the home.
Both are forms for child abuse under the current law, but rarely enforced.
The way the public are applying the label “paedophile” is ridiculous and could now be use to describe anything to do with children: from someone watches their child in the bath to hug from granddad.
I will say it again, Mr Lanhgam didn’t kill anyone, he didn’t abuse anyone, he didn’t produce anything.
Such cases are close to dangerous line where the courts and the public seem to feel that thinking about and viewing material are the same has committing the act.
The days of the through police grow closer by the hour.
He was viewing moving images, some as long as 12 minutes of what is described as the worst level of child molestation!
Hardly like looking at a piccy. A dozen times worse.
We all saw videos of 9/11 attacks on tv.
Using Sharongooner argument are all going to start bombing campaigns?
Should everyone who saw the video be lock up?
And what about the victims…………?
Aside from Langham being exposed as the paedophile that he is, only one other good thing that has come of this case. Two of the video clips found in his possession showed an 8-year-old girl being tied up and sexually abused by her father. The young girl has since been identified and rescued. Her father has been prosecuted.
What sort of person could possibly get a kick out of seeing this? he makes my skin crawl, i hope he has a very unpleasant time inside.
Going back to the point of his sentence being lenient because of the number of videos he had in his collection, the police actually found evidence that Langham had attempted and failed to download many other videos of child po rnography. So you see, its not that he didnt WANT to see any more videos it was that he had attempted and failed.
5 months is a joke.
@dead_on_arrvial wrote:
We all saw videos of 9/11 attacks on tv.
Using Sharongooner argument are all going to start bombing campaigns?
Should everyone who saw the video be lock up?
And what about the victims…………?
Doa, how you can compare watching the national news coverage of the events of 9/11 (at the time you couldnt put the tv on or pick up a newspaper without it being there) to actively seeking child po/rn is beyond me.
Again, you cant draw comparisons between victims of a terrorist attack to victims of child abuse, these are two totally different scenario’s.
Why is it that you seem to have little or no symapthy for the victims of child abuse, Doa?
Your right pebbles, 5 months is a joke. We can only hope it,s 5 months of hell for him. You do realise that the special units of the police that work on cases like these, actually have to sit and watch videos like that. Sometimes they have to sit through many many hours of such depraved filth in order to bring the scumbab who commited the henious acts to justice. I don,t know what possible treatment a pervert could possibly have, in order the make them “better”. In my opinion once a person is like this, there is no “cure”. The only option is for them to spend the entire rest of their miserable existence in prison. And when I say miserable I sincerely hope that is the case. Even hardened criminals such as armed robbers for example, HATE nonces with a passion. And he,ll be very lucky indeed if he survies in there without getting a good pasting. It,s not unknown for prison guards to turn a blind eye to it either.
The answers a simple one Pebbles, watching an act and taking part in an act if different.
Viewing any martial may affected what you think, but would not necessity cause you to break the law.
Has for a lack of sympathy for the victims of abuse, most of the time, the victim knows and trusts the abuser.
Some victims go on to become abusers
So is it a case of sympathy for the victim now, hatred for the abuser later?
You need to make up your mind if a victim of abuse is still a victim after he/she abuses.
@dead_on_arrvial wrote:
The answers a simple one Pebbles, watching an act and taking part in an act if different.
Viewing any martial may affected what you think, but would not necessity cause you to break the law.
Has for a lack of sympathy for the victims of abuse, most of the time, the victim knows and trusts the abuser.
Some victims go on to become abusers
So is it a case of sympathy for the victim now, hatred for the abuser later?
You need to make up your mind if a victim of abuse is still a victim after he/she abuses.
So am I right in thinking that YOU personally dont see anything wrong with people viewing child po/rn? And by the way, viewing this sort of material IS breaking the law, hence why Langham was locked up.
Your lack of sympathy for the victim stems from the fact that some of them will go on to abuse themselves at a later stage of life. This may be the case, but similarly, i expect the majority dont. I personally cant understand why they would having gone through it themselves. If you seriously dont feel any symapthy towards children who are subjected to this, then im afraid to say that says rather a lot about you Doa.
You talk as though ALL victims then become abusers. Yes it can happen but it for me is not a strong enough reason for justifying watching and downloading the rape of an 8 year old child.
As to the sentance, Ive just been reading that he had a really tough time in the 6 weeks he spent on remand.
One can only hope it gets worse.
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