Paedophiles are a hateful bunch

Posted by Music Top SIte Rabu, 23 Desember 2009 0 komentar
Paedophiles are a hateful bunch of people. The damage they do to children is very severe, long lasting and completely at odds with practically all human feeling. Perhaps less obvious is the damage they do to families, but the damage that is forgotten altogether is the damage done to society at large, both by the actual crimes and the means adopted to the counteract the perversion.

The need to protect children is obvious, and the means to provide that protection must be freely available, but we must not "throw out the baby with the bath water". Children must be protected because abuse damages them, but society must also be protected, it is made up of individuals and these individuals are every bit as valuable as a child, each is a person in their own right. Over zealous application of rules and procedures can damage innocent individuals as severely as a pervert can damage a child. If a system can bar someone from a simple accusation alone, that system cannot be right. It took years to develop the Bill of Rights, the right to a fair trial, legal representation and the right of appeal. To lose that to a knee-jerk reaction to high profile cases we see in the media will be to shame all those who suffered and died to create a fair and equitable country. Lock up the perverts, but leave society at large to be free from the oppression of the pointed finger.

This is not a new problem, people have been damaged by simple accusation for years. Whilst the English Civil war was raging across the land in the 1600s, the famous self-appointed Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins was doing just that:- as John Gaule wrote in his 'Select Cases of Conscience', "Every old woman with a wrinkled face, a furrowed brow, a hairy lip, a gobber tooth, a squint eye, a squeaking voice or scolding tongue, having a rugged coat on her back, a skull-cap on her head, a spindle in her hand and a dog or cat by her side, is not only suspect but pronounced for a witch". In 1581, one Margaret Simons of Kent rebuked a young man for chasing a dog whilst he was armed with a knife. (There is nothing new in knife crime!). The next day, the boy fell ill and she was accused of witchcraft, it being thought she had made him ill. Luckily the jury at her trial failed to establish her guilt, but others were not so lucky. If this had happened in the modern era and in the context of an accusation of Paedophilia, even if acquitted, the accused will be barred for life from all sorts of jobs. Their standing in society will be damaged beyond repair, their families may well shun or reject them, in short, they will have been severely damaged by a simple accusation.

The disease is spreading. As an amateur photographer who delights in taking pictures of wildlife and hence uses a long lens, I feel threatened by the current craze of suspicion. Not just suspicion of Paedophilia, now we have to add terrorism. If seen in public, even places where the birds fly, carrying a posh looking camera, I can be stopped by a police officer under suspicion of carrying out a terrorist reconnaissance. If I am not doing that, I must be spying on children from afar, otherwise, why would I want a long lens? Now add my naturist lifestyle, the talking heads will go into overdrive. A naturist who has a long lens on his camera, he must be a pervert! Oh dear, when they find I also have a telescope and binoculars, proof positive, lock him up or at least take away his computer and examine every part of what is found there. Never mind about the missing evidence of real suspicion, plain old prejudice will do. Suspicion is ruining the peaceful business of taking simple photographs of the world I see before me.

We need a better system. We need a system whereby the decision to bar suspected perverts is open to inspection and challenge. If the suspicion has been caused by scurrilous, lazy or malicious intent or plain old fashioned prejudice, the person making the accusation should themselves be barred from any occupation requiring integrity, and that includes police officers. Perverts need to be locked up for the protection of children but we must not ruin the society in which they are growing up. Each protected child should grow up into a safe and fair society, not one in which they in turn have their lives ruined by unwarranted suspicion.
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