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Scottish Gay Rights Activists Found Guilty of Pedophilia Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
LifeSiteNews ^ | EDINBURGH, Scotland, November 3, 2009 | Thaddeus M. Baklinski

Posted on 11/03/2009 1:51:11 PM PST by GonzoII

Tuesday November 3, 2009


Scottish Gay Rights Activists Found Guilty of Pedophilia Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

EDINBURGH, Scotland, November 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An influential gay rights activist and youth group leader, and another homosexualist activist, have been jailed for life for their involvement in the largest pedophile ring ever uncovered in Scotland.

James Rennie, one time co-coordinator of the homosexual rights group LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Youth Scotland and a former teacher, and Neil Strachan, the former secretary of a Celtic boys club and campaigner on homosexual issues, were convicted in May on charges including sex attacks on children, conspiring to abuse children, and possessing and distributing child pornography.

Rennie and Strachan were the ringleaders of the pedophile network which was uncovered in 2007 after an intensive police investigation, codenamed Operation Algebra.

The investigation led to the arrest of six other men besides Rennie and Strachan, and to the seizure of over 125,000 images and videos of child abuse.

Rennie, 38, was convicted of 14 offenses, including molesting a young boy who was left occasionally under his care by friends over a period of more than four years, beginning when the child was three months old. Rennie was sentenced to life with a minimum of 13 years behind bars.

Strachan, 41, was convicted for nine offenses, including attempting to sodomize an 18-month-old boy and sexually assaulting a six-year-old boy. He was sentenced to life with a minimum of 16 years in prison.

The judge, Lord Bannatyne, said the pair were guilty of gross and appalling breaches of trust since both men had abused children entrusted to them for babysitting by close friends. They had both photographed the abuse.

"These offences involve real children and many of the photographs involve children being sexually abused, often in the most appalling ways. There are real victims of these offences, namely the children who were photographed and abused," Lord Bannatyne said.

Bannatyne imposed a "lifelong restriction" order, used for the most serious and violent sexual offenders, on both men, indicating they were likely to "seriously endanger the physical wellbeing of a member of the public." This order will place them under risk assessment and management plans until they die.


See previous LSN coverage:

Pedophile Ringleader was Top Advisor to Scottish Gov't on Homosexuality and Children
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09051411.html

Chief Executive of Homosexual Group Found Guilty of Involvement in Pedophile Ring
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09051113.html

URL: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09110308.html


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 Who is like unto God?........ Lk:10:18:
 And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven.
1 posted on 11/03/2009 1:51:13 PM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

I like Saudi Arabia’s way of dealing with this sort of thing, that solution was posted earlier on Freeper.


2 posted on 11/03/2009 1:54:58 PM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: GonzoII
Are you SERIOUS? Prominent "civil rights" activists who were actually secretly pedophiles? I am astounded!

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3 posted on 11/03/2009 1:55:52 PM PST by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: GonzoII

“Lifelong restriction?” “Life management”?

None of that would be necessary were I imposing punishment.

Just how does one “attempt” to sodomize an infant? And photograph it. Nevermind, I don’t want to know.


4 posted on 11/03/2009 1:56:25 PM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: GonzoII

“Rennie was sentenced to life with a minimum of 13 years behind bars.”

What? And the rest of the time in them???


5 posted on 11/03/2009 1:58:08 PM PST by Jagman
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To: GonzoII
Oh c'mon now people, I'm sure that the facts that he's gay and that he's a paedophile are purely coincidental.

/do I need it?

6 posted on 11/03/2009 1:58:30 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (There are only two REAL conservatives in America - myself, and my chosen Presidential candidate)
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To: GonzoII

Congratulations to Lord Bannatyne for doing the right thing.


7 posted on 11/03/2009 1:59:35 PM PST by American Quilter (USC Trojans--Fight On!)
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To: 50sDad

A gay guy abusing little boys... wow, I mean how shocking.. I mean its only 50 times more likely to happen than say a straight guy molesting a little girl.

Homosexuality is a mental disorder, these people need pity and therapy not “acceptance”. Its a cold day in hell when I leave my son alone with a homosexual.. I’ve seen too much reality to buy into the PC claptrap.


8 posted on 11/03/2009 2:00:04 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: GonzoII
May they serve their full sentences and may they be nasty, brutish, and short.

Point to the 'former Secretary of a Celtic Boy's Club', the 'former teacher' when people even question why certain positions in schools (and the Boy Scouts) should not be allowed to be filled by homosexuals.

9 posted on 11/03/2009 2:01:38 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: GonzoII

If they’d just let gays marry, we wouldn’t have this problem.


10 posted on 11/03/2009 2:01:44 PM PST by Houghton M.
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

It appears they have several advocates for queers adopting children busted in this pedo ring. A queer activist who advocates queer adoption was busted for molesting his adopted child in NC.

There is a pattern here...but the media will ignore it and anyone who brings it up will be prosecuted under the new hate crimes laws.


11 posted on 11/03/2009 2:04:37 PM PST by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The Final Turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: GonzoII

C'mere fellas. Time to have a little sit-down.

12 posted on 11/03/2009 2:04:46 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: GonzoII

I wonder what oil deal will get them released.


13 posted on 11/03/2009 2:04:51 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: GonzoII

The gay life style and pedophilia are MUCH more closely related to each other, than they are to adult heterosexual behavior.

There are two kinds of pedophilia, homosexual, in which the victim is of the same gender as the perpetrator, and heterosexual, in which the victim is of the opposite gender. The effect is the same, an individual with greater powers in every way (power of will, persuasion, economic power, recognized authority) imposes conditions, sometimes forcibly, sometimes by guile, on the helpless victim, and brings shame and humiliation to the victim. That only changes a little bit when the perpetrator/victim dyad are much closer in parity on the balance of power, i.e., social status, age, economic standing. There is still the feeling of shared wrongness, which successful sociopaths are much more adept as suppressing than more balanced persons.


14 posted on 11/03/2009 2:08:28 PM PST by alloysteel (....the Kennedys can be regarded as dysfunctional. Even in death.)
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To: GonzoII

By making homosexual sodomy a crime, in some instances punishable by death, did our ancestors know something we “moderns” don’t?


15 posted on 11/03/2009 2:09:34 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Someone once said that since gays don’t breed, they must recruit...


16 posted on 11/03/2009 2:09:52 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 286 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: GonzoII

Make him the poster boy


17 posted on 11/03/2009 2:10:46 PM PST by dalebert
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To: subterfuge
This is the sort of crime - raping an 18 month old - that deserves the death penalty. If I remember correctly, Louisiana had imposed it on several people but there's a court challenge about whether or not you can kill someone who hasn't been convicted for anything other than murder.

Someone who does something like this cannot be rehabilitated. Many psychologists will tell you it is not so much about sex as it is power, control, and dominion over innocence.

They need to be executed.

18 posted on 11/03/2009 2:11:07 PM PST by WallStreetCapitalist
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To: WallStreetCapitalist

I couldn’t agree with you more.


19 posted on 11/03/2009 2:28:05 PM PST by dixiedarlindownsouth (Coming soon to a bookstore near you, Barack Obama's "How to win friends as you screw your country")
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To: GonzoII

They should have come to the USA, could be Education Safety czar or similar post in the 0bama administration.


20 posted on 11/03/2009 2:35:31 PM PST by NEMDF
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