I wanted to title this "How not to talk to a teen molester". This judge just doesn't have a clue. He's not talking to a teen about driving too fast or shop-lifting. The teen has no conscience so why does the judge bother? In fact, this teen has a cognitive disability and thus that fact makes a lecture almost useless.
IMO, this type of "grandfatherly" type admonishment is simply enabling this young man to go forth and offend again. Kids with DD need swift and sure punitive feedback for negative behaviors. I have to wonder whether Judge Leonard would want Thain to move in next door to his children or grandchildren. After all, no one said the judge must understand the crime, only mete out appropriate punishment for it. Unacceptable. If kbl is reading this, I'm sorry. I know your head will explode. Mine did too.
http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/ne...who_created_porn_library_spared_jail/?ref=rss
"An 18-year-old who molested a toddler and a schoolgirl while building a library of vile child *advertiser censored* images has walked free from court.
Sick Matthew Thain collected internet pictures of children as young as four being abused by adults, as well as extreme animal *advertiser censored*, but was spared jail after a judge deemed supervision and a sexual offences prevention order would be enough to protect other children.
and
...."Judge Anthony Leonard QC said: I cannot begin to understand what went through your mind to make you think it was appropriate to touch that 10-year-old as you did, or how you thought it was right to play with the genitals of a child who was three.
I cannot begin to understand why you downloaded horrid photographs of things being done to very young children...."
more at link
IMO, this type of "grandfatherly" type admonishment is simply enabling this young man to go forth and offend again. Kids with DD need swift and sure punitive feedback for negative behaviors. I have to wonder whether Judge Leonard would want Thain to move in next door to his children or grandchildren. After all, no one said the judge must understand the crime, only mete out appropriate punishment for it. Unacceptable. If kbl is reading this, I'm sorry. I know your head will explode. Mine did too.
http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/ne...who_created_porn_library_spared_jail/?ref=rss
"An 18-year-old who molested a toddler and a schoolgirl while building a library of vile child *advertiser censored* images has walked free from court.
Sick Matthew Thain collected internet pictures of children as young as four being abused by adults, as well as extreme animal *advertiser censored*, but was spared jail after a judge deemed supervision and a sexual offences prevention order would be enough to protect other children.
and
...."Judge Anthony Leonard QC said: I cannot begin to understand what went through your mind to make you think it was appropriate to touch that 10-year-old as you did, or how you thought it was right to play with the genitals of a child who was three.
I cannot begin to understand why you downloaded horrid photographs of things being done to very young children...."
more at link