Child porn Santa did little wrong, says lawyer: "'This man has done no more than look at what was already there without putting forward any consideration (payment) whatsoever,' he said."
The court will decide what it decides in terms of justice. The pictures were there. So who takes responsibility for those? Who lets the pictures onto the Net for anyone to look at? Who allows this to happen so people can look? Who are we going to ask to be responsible for that aspect of it? If they are not there then children are not on the Net for all and sundry to see. That is a community responsibility. Then there is the matter of the number of people we are finding who abuse children this way. We tend to find those who are actively abusing them in real life and the ones who are looking at pictures someone made. We don't seem to catch the makers of the images. As horrible, horrifying and distasteful as this is at least we have got it out into the public arena. At least we are not pretending it is not there. At least we are trying to work out why people do this and in that there is some hope of stopping people from doing it. At least we are not pretending it doesn't exist and those who have been abused can talk about it. It is not their dark secret, their worst nightmare and something they are not entitled to disclose. I want us to keep this up so that children who have put up with this are freed of their trauma and guilt. I want us to have it out there in the open so people know we are watching and we do not want this to happen any more. It has happened for years, centuries through different civilisations. We do not get a lot right. I'd like to think we can, from this point onwards, protect and care for our children.
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