Friday, 21 September 2007

Law in the news 20/09/2007

Today a teacher faces jail after being convicted of using his computer to access child pornography.

Uk police where informed by Italian agents of his activites the the denfended denied all knowledge of how some 243 images and eight video clips had ended up onto his computer.

He was convited of posessing the images {one level four image}.

for the full story visit this link BBC NEWS

Looking at this case there are many different offences that could be taken into count when charging for this offence.

Thanks to the government undertaking a major reform into the offences relating to sexual offence and the passing of the SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT 2003. This act introduced new offences and make the exising offences easyer to understand. The old offences relating to sexual offences was clearly out of date and the government made a good job relating to this.

The new act has made it easyer to charge for offences and most importantly serious offences such as rape. The best thing about this new act, it really portects children! Crimes against children I feel like many others are the worst, and this act is great step forward in proecteting them by bringing in new offences. However so much more needs to be done relating to this subject. But this act is a step in the right direction and the government deserve a pat on the back.

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