El Cid Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Hi How far should we persecute people that do wrong? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22820558 Bettley was cautioned for the offence of possessing an indecent photograph (COPINE scale 1) or pseudo-photograph of a child and placed on the sex offenders register for two years after his computer was seized by police in 2010. Bettley had been employed as an RE teacher at St Mary's Catholic School in Menston, West Yorkshire, until he was dismissed in December 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediumfast Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 "Police had found almost 200 images on his computer" somewhat ambiguous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cid Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 "Police had found almost 200 images on his computer" somewhat ambiguous! I heard, that he only viewed 4 immages, and those immages were low level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I heard, that he only viewed 4 immages, and those immages were low level. The media seem quite quiet about what "low level" / "lowest level" actually means. 1. Indicative Non-erotic and non-sexualised pictures showing children in their underwear, swimming costumes from either commercial sources or family albums. Pictures of children playing in normal settings, in which the context or organisation of pictures by the collector indicates inappropriateness. 2. Nudist Pictures of naked or semi-naked children in appropriate nudist settings, and from legitimate sources. The other 8 levels can be found here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPINE_scale I included level 2, because I can think of several examples that normal law-abiding people may own which could be seen as infringing at that level - e.g. photos of tribes in Africa featured in a book about the country. I think the government could be heading into dodgy territory by banning people from working in certain jobs for cautions for that level of material. If the authorities thought they had a decent case against this guy, why didn't they prosecute. It brings back memories of Operation Ore where many people, unfairly/incorrectly accused, accepted cautions to drop the action and let them get on with their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eater Sundae Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 If he had not accepted a caution, would this have gone any further? I doubt it. In which case nobody would have even known about it, and he would be back teaching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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