Re: Children as young as 12 seeking sex on the Internet

On 31 Jul, 18:21, Webmanager_CritEst <webmana...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dc Rankin said police could only charge Smith with sending the sexual
images because he had waited until the girl was 16 before attempting
to fly her out to America.

"He had researched his law enough to know that when she was 16 the
offence of grooming would not stick," he said.

Whoa, back the *** up a second. If I read that right, what they're
saying here is "He researched the law, found out what he could and
could not legally do, made sure he stayed within UK law by not doing
anything until she was 16, but we arrested him anyway, even though we
knew the offence wouldn't stick"
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