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.
The RF is where Believers can be attacked by hate as virulent as any lefty can spew. I don’t go there. And I hate no one that loves Jesus. I don’t care what church they attend. The new gang of haters will eventually meet their Waterloo.
Well spoken. The irritating bit is that they’ve learnt and now hide their leftism to fire barbs so that Christians will fight with each other.
It’s what the left does....divide and conquer.
They can mock. But there is a price to pay. I read the end of “the Book”. :-)
Yeah but posting all those articles was mocking, and an attempt to start arguments. I really am sorry for them. That kind of anger and hatred makes life unpleasant. And one has to have a lot of wasted time to continually post that sort of thing.
you know, we probably need to pray more for sad lefties, no matter how much they try to mock Christians.
Proverbs 25: 21-22
21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
22 In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head,
and the LORD will reward you.
I refuse to get used to the reversal of the meaning of the word "intimate"
Nor (as in "Ministry of ...") the misuse of the word "justice".
I’m stunned at this “sentence”. Perhaps this ruling will also be overturned, but the real solution is to have this judge removed.
Was there a priest involved in this story?
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That can't be allowed, apparently.
It also says not to cast pearls among the swine and to describe much of the RF as a pig trough would actually be an insult to the pigs.
Satan is growing angrier and it shows.
It is definitely a “slug fest” there. I avoid it now. Several times I’ve opened a link only to find that it’s posted in the RF. I close it without reading anything.
Even though the Catholic Church promotes global warming, evolution, Democrat candidates, Obamacare, state funding of churches, illegal immigration and amnesty, and a United Nations "with teeth", all while declaring that both the American way of life and capitalism are heresies, it's hard to remember that Catholics are the only true conservatives which must be why they want to take away voting privileges from anyone not Catholic. Because it's not possible that anyone would disagree so stridently with the Catholic Church, and not be a "leftist posing as a Christian...."
BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA
....Set your decoder rings to 46-12-0N, 6-10-0E and be ready for your next assignment, agents!
The devil has come down to you in great wrath because he knows his time is short.
(Rev 12:12)
Fratre: Sobrii estote, et vigilate: quia adversarius noster diabolus tamquam leo rugiens circuit, quaerens quem devoret: cui resistite fortes in fide.
(I Petri 5,8-9)
Not really. There's only one reason that I can think of why the judge would go light on him.....
So metmom, does this mean that YOU think this is somehow the Catholic Church's fault?
I only ask because your name figures prominently on the ping lists of bigots who do.
This thread has nothing to do with the Church. Your posts are nothing more than attempts to hijack this thread. It’s pathetic.
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