The
Child
Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has pledged that those who
deliberately view child pornography online will go to prison, but has suggested
that non-custodial sentences may be suitable in some cases.
CEOP chief executive Jim Gamble said on
BBC
Radio 4's
Today
programme that the scale of the child abuse problem in Britain is such that not
everyone who views an image could be sent to jail without a major prison
building programme.
But he was clear that those who seek out such material will be jailed. "If
someone deliberately goes to one of these sites and uses a credit card to buy
child pornography, they should go to prison," he said. "It needs to act as a
deterrent."
Ray Wyre, director of
RWA, an
independent child protection group that aims to help to rehabilitate sex
offenders, said that not everyone who downloads child pornography is a
paedophile because web page viewing can be inadvertent.
"They see a sentence under pictures that says 'three virgins', or something
like that, and they get curious as to what that is, and they download it," he
said. "It is that easy to have illegal images on your computer."
Wyre added that peer-to-peer services like
Lime
Wire are also catching people out with misnamed files.
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