Paedophiles - unchanged spots - a lifetime and ineradicable habit ?

WARNING UNPLEASANT SUBJECT!!! -David Arthur Joy, 66, who had been a teacher was a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). He pleaded guilty at Leicester crown court today to 11 counts of making or possessing indecent images of children.

Judge, Michael Pert QC handed him an indeterminate prison sentence and told him must serve a minimum of 18 months before he can be considered for parole and added that given Joy's beliefs, that day "may never come".

The court was told he had a string of previous convictions for child sex offences dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, including the attempted rape of a young girl and indecent assault.

This follows the case of Thomas O'Carroll, 61, from Leamington Spa, who taught at Caludon Castle School in Wyken, Coventry in the 70's lost his job when parents complained he had pestered their son after becoming infatuated with him. he had 50,000 images of child abuse and admuitted two charges of distributing child pornography in court. Over 100 Police were involved in the case over a lengthy period.

O'Carroll, who was living in Shilden, Co.Durham had, with his accomplice, built up a collection of 50,000 images of child abuse, a hearing was told at the Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court in September last year - he admitted two charges of distributing child porn.

His co-defendant, millionaire Michael Studdert, aged 67, a former Anglican minister from Surrey had a secret vault in his country mansion in which police found a vast array of magazines, videos, photographs and slides. He also had property in Poland where he spent lengthy periods.

O'Caroll became a press officer for the Open University, but was sacked in the late 1970s for being the chairman and founder of the Paedophile Information Exchange, (PIE) which campaigned to decriminalise sex between adults and children. His (lengthy) explanation of the formation of the development and growth of the PIE can be found here as part of what is claimed to be an academic study by International Paedophile Child Emancipation Group (IPCE) the successor body O'Carroll set up when PIE failed.

His case was, at the time a cause celebre and was seen as a great tussle over rights of free speech....if memory serves correctly he was actually sacked for using an OU photocopier for personal purposes, although it was also claimed he had brought the OU into disrepute.

At the time Sir Frederick Warner, Chairman of the University Council , Pro Vice Chancellor and Old Bancroftian, *** was embarassed as the event coincided with a great many OU staff "outing" themselves as homosexuals - greatly aided by O'Carroll who was OU Press Officer (also homosexualist) and edited the OU staff newspaper,Open House.

In 1981, O'Carroll was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for conspiracy to corrupt public morals after he published Pie's worldwide contact list to try to encourage sexual contact with children.

In August 2002, O'Carroll, was jailed for nine months for smuggling indecent pictures of naked children from Qatar. But after a hearing at the Court of Appeal, the prison sentence was overturned.

In September Michael Studdert, was sentenced to four years and Thomas O'Carroll two-and-a-half years and received the first ever such order ever issued banning him for life from using the internet.

It is no coincidence that Joy, O'Carroll and Studdart were prosecuted as the Police had infiltrated the International Paedophile Child Emancipation Group founded like PIE by O'Carroll and a group called Gentlemen With An Interesting Name. Both campaigned for the legalisation of sex between adults and children.

Evidently paedophiles are serial recividists, they justify their depravity by arcane and unacceptable arguments and are impervious it appears ,to either prison or treatment. The internet offers them a new arena for their activities.

**** Sir Frederick Warner was a very successful industrial chemical engineer whose talents would be well used today as he had extensive knowledge and experience of coal gasification and production of fuels.

He was involved in the SCOPE / REDPATH committee which had a special focus on examining the data from the fall-out from the explosion at the Chernobyl reactor in 1986. had a special focus on examining the data from the fall-out from the explosion at the Chernobyl reactor. This work led Warner to suggest the establishment of a voluntary organisation of engineers and scientists over the age of 65 willing to risk ionising radiation in order to make initial damage assessments in the event of a nuclear accident. He met with a positive response. Volunteers for Ionising Radiation (VIR) was established and although the idea did not meet with approval in all circles, the VIR were incorporated into the emergency provisions of the Order of St John.