Re: Langham out already....

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:05:33 -0000, "The Todal" <deadmailbox@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I was intrigued by this statement from the COA jusdge:

<...> L's explanation for his making of the photographs
was highly improbable, but was not an issue the court could make a robust
decision upon. The real mischief was the horrifying sexual abuse inflicted
on the children contained in the images and the images being downloaded only
served to encourage the continuance of that abuse, whatever the motivation
of the recipient.

So child abuse is encouraged, according to that judge, by downloading
images of child abuse *whatever the motivation of the recipient*.

That would mean that police officers and people in the IWF who
download images for investigatory reasons are also "encouraging the
continuance of abuse"

I am also still unclear as to why downloading images of that
particular crime would serve to encourage more being committed, whilst
downloading images of other types of crime are not considered to have
a similar escallating effect.

--
Cynic

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