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>>Too bad...that’s the price you pay when you bugger children...<<

Crimes really do have varying degrees. And, frankly, we are on such a hair trigger on this stuff, legally, that is is very possible to nail a guy who never, EVER intended to view or store any pictures of naked kids. There have been articles about it posted right here on FR.

“I agree with your sentiment, but I do not believe that is what these people were convicted of. Simply having the pictures on your computer is not the same as buggering children any more than a married man having a subscription to playboy is having an affair.”

People who are sexually attracted to children are the same as adult men who like to look at hooters?

Really?

I agree with your sentiment, but I do not believe that is what these people were convicted of. Simply having the pictures on your computer is not the same as buggering children any more than a married man having a subscription to playboy is having an affair.

Crimes really do have varying degrees. And, frankly, we are on such a hair trigger on this stuff, legally, that is is very possible to nail a guy who never, EVER intended to view or store any pictures of naked kids. There have been articles about it posted right here on FR.

I know I get into trouble on some of this stuff too, but we just cannot turn into barbarians and shoot everyone that is suspect here, we have laws and rules to live by and there are people who might unknowingly stumble across stuff like this. Maybe to some here I might lean a little too libertarian and so on but we need to find the truth in all cases and clogging it with rage clouds things up a bit.

I've known of cases where people who might buy a third or fourth hand laptop might discover such media on their computers and most of the time, it is untraceable. If I got a secondhand computer from an unknown source and cannot trace it, it would behoove me to go through the drive and just wipe out the horrible stuff and defrag the drive and wipe it clean.

I just think we need to hold our horses on a lot of these cases to find the real truth. I've personally seen what jumping to conclusions can happen, my best friend almost had it happen to him where his girlfriend at the time wanted to get back at him called the cops on him and said that he was abusing, physically not sexually (but with the hair trigger in today's society, it might as well be one of the same), and he was arrested. It was a false accusation. He spent a night in county lockup. His mother was all bent out of shape. Later on, the girlfriend's father fessed up and told the truth that his daughter falsely accused my buddy and all charged were dropped and he was released. Thank God that fire was put out before it got legs because even if you are innocent and/or judged innocent in a court of law, the stigma still remains.

Yes, we need to protect our kids, but we need to protect the innocent too and go about this under the rule of law, not emotion.