‘Pedophiles need therapy, not jail,’ says Britain’s National Crime Agency chief
Pedophiles could be spared jail and instead given counseling due to the massive volume of online child abuse images and scant resources, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said. NCA boss Lynne Owens said the scale of the challenge facing undercover cops is so great it requires a radical re-think. She said undercover investigators could approach offenders looking at low-level child abuse images online and ask them to seek help from charities. The program is bound to be controversial, however, as it would rely on appealing to the conscience of pedophiles. VIP paedophile allegations in Operation Midland lack evidence...
Pedophiles could be spared jail and instead given counseling due to the massive volume of online child abuse images and scant resources, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said. NCA boss Lynne Owens said the scale of the challenge...
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