Posted on 04/11/2011 3:53:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
UNITED KINGDOM, April 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An English judge has ruled that a 24-year-old male pedophile was “seduced” by a 13-year-old girl after the man watched the teen perform intimate acts over a webcam.
Twenty-four-year-old David Barnes of Darlington, Co Durham was arrested in 2009 when police began investigating communication the 13-year-old was having with older males on the internet. Police found over 600 downloaded photos and videos of child pornography in Barnes’ possession and later charged him with 17 counts of making indecent images and forcing a child into sexual activity.
Despite the evidence and Barnes’ probation officer having advised the judge of the pedophile’s “high risk” of sexual harm to children, Judge Peter Fox let Barnes go with a suspended sentence.
“Many people must be puzzled to say the very least at the leniency of the guideline sentencing,” said Fox. “If I sent you to prison it would be for a matter of a few weeks only, hence, as I say, the puzzlement that many people would have about that.”
“The few weeks you would spend in prison would do nothing to stop you doing this again. My concern is for the future - the protection of other children,” said the judge, who argued that the sex offender treatment program Barnes would be required to go through would be better than a prison sentence.
Judge Fox said he accepted the man’s claim that in the “perverted activities over the internet with the 13-year-old” the minor “appears to have seduced you.”
About the child pornography found on Barnes’ computer, the judge said it was “the worst kind of abuse of very small children for the perverted lust of people like you.” He added: “How you could be attracted to that kind of material beggars belief.”
Fox’s ruling has sparked huge fury among critics who say Barnes should have been given a much sterner punishment.
“Thirteen-year-olds have to be protected. It goes without saying, they are children,” said Neil Atkinson, spokesman for the National Victims’ Association. “Intellectually, ethically and legally, this girl - or anyone of that age - could not possibly have been on the same level as a man in his 20s.”
“No 13-year-old can be realistically accused of seducing a man of this age. We find it incomprehensible that a judge could say so,” Atkinson added. “It is abhorrent that anyone in their 20s should, in effect, go unpunished for something that could have led to a far more serious offence.”
Judge Fox has reportedly been known for giving light sentences to sex offenders in the past. In 2001, a 23-year-old man who assaulted three teenage girls was given a suspended sentence by Fox, who called the girls “silly.” In 2009, he gave another suspended sentence to a 21-year-old man accused of sexual relations with two girls, age 13 and 15. A 40-year-old woman accused of sexual relations with a 14-year-old boy also got off easy, with Fox reportedly saying the boy seduced the woman. An appeals court later overturned his ruling and gave the woman a one year sentence.
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Sharia in practice.
This is horrifying. Great Britain has gone so far downhill, it makes the state of our nation look rosy.
Sounds like this ‘judge’ has spent too much time around Muslims.
Right! Hiz honor is probably a perv himself...
I wonder if they’ll execute the 13 year old girl.
When the Brits come to their senses about this idiotic judge, he can always move to California, I’m sure Governor Jerry “Moonbat” Brown will appoint him to some state court here.
Neil Atkinson, spokesman for the National Victims’ Association. “Intellectually, ethically and legally, this girl - or anyone of that age - could not possibly have been on the same level as a man in his 20s.”
This is just rediculous, Niel obviously doesn’t know many
13 year old girls, or 20 year old males.
Even if I’m willing to believe that this is the very rare “Lolita” — an early-sexualized girl who indeed DOES try to seduce much-older males — so what??, legally speaking. No one forced the guy to do anything to this young girl. “But she came on to me” isn’t a good enough excuse, particularly for so obviously young a girl.
Roman Polanski, I’ve found the judge for you!
It probably indicates there is a huge pedophile ring at work in England.
There were similar acquittals in Belgium, until one judge stood up and convicted a pedophile-kidnapper-murderer who had let two girls starve to death in his basement. The pedophile was put in the nation’s top security prison—then was allowed to escape, because he knew of dozens of high officials in government who were also pedophiles.
Fortunately, he was captured just before he reached the border. The public was outraged, at one point holding a rally of hundreds of thousands against pedophilia and pedophiles. This paralyzed the government and political parties.
But the pedophiles in power were not done, yet. The judge who had convicted the pedophile started to receive serious death threats, and had to go into the equivalent of witness protection.
The pedophile ring was never truly broken, throwing Belgium into a deep paranoia about their children that remains to this day. But since they no longer can operate as freely as they once did, the pedophiles have likely branched out into other nations, with a less protected supply of young children they can prey on.
Such as England.
This is Criminal Rights Nazi to the extreme. The Judge is a pedophile
That's one of the goals of the pervs in this country, too - lowering of the age of consent.
It was only a matter of time before pedophiles started placing blame on the children for being “so damn sexy”. This is asinine.
wagglebee: This is beyond disgusting.
I would have thought you would be relieved! The precedent this sets is huge for the Catholic Church, or at least for those Catholics on FR who argued that no priest molested anyone against their will, rather it was the priests who were themselves victims of seduction, taken advantage of by homosexuals within the age of consent.
Oh, and if the girl in your news story was age 13, the male couldn't have been a pedophile. How many times have Catholics told us that?
Definitely a pattern there. Sounds like someone should investigate Fox’s activities off the bench...
If there is ever any doubt about whether or not I give a damn about what you think I will ping you.
The precedent this sets is huge for the Catholic Church, or at least for those Catholics on FR who argued that no priest molested anyone against their will, rather it was the priests who were themselves victims of seduction, taken advantage of by homosexuals within the age of consent.
As you can see, this is posted in NEWS. I have avoided the Religion Forum for months now because I really don't care what you and the jackasses like you think.
Oh, and if the girl in your news story was age 13, the male couldn't have been a pedophile.
You really are a sick degenerate.
Truely awful. No way a 13 year old could “Seduce” any one, even begging with a hundred dollar bill in her teeth...SHE IS STILL 13 YEARS OLD! Sick.
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