Help stop the child sex industry

[Ethel]

There is a lot of understandable outrage about Gary Glitter.

Put your money where your mouth is and do something positive to help stamp out this filthy industry worldwide. Let some good come out of this.

http://www.ecpat.org.uk/

This charity works with UNICEF and other highly regarded organisations.

[Ethel]

That is why ecpat works with many different countries, many different organisations, to try to protect children worldwide.

[Caribeing]

Anything to eradicate this vile and evil plague! Gary Glitter smiling in photographs as if he hasn't a care in the world! enought to make you sick!

[birdie1971]

Mary T - I suspect that his smiles are somewhat false. The inevitable media attention, the lynch-mob mentality of some of our population, etc. I suspect that his smiles are as empty and meaningless as most of his musical catalogue.

[Velvetee]

The creepy freak should have a big "P" tattooed on his filthy, depraved forehead.

[Quizmonster]

There's about as much chance of stopping child pornography as there is of stamping out the drugs trade...ie nil. Despite a multitude of 'busts' in both cases, the flood continues and always will.
Obviously, I do not condone child molestation in any way, but it has been with us from time immemorial and forever will be. The best we can hope for is that as many as possible of the perverts involved will be caught.

[anotheoldgit]

The only trouble with these charities, is the fact that only a small amount of the contributions, actually go to where it is needed.

Ethel you recently posted a question regarding illegal file sharing, and in it's accompanying Daily Mail link, was the following quote :

ISPs have formed a partnership with entertainment companies to identify the owners of computers being used for file-sharing.

In view of this, why couldn't ISPs form a partnership with the Police so as to identify the owners of computers being used for the downloading of child porn, or isn't this as important as catching those villains downloading, games, videos and music?

[Ethel]

They do, AOG, and that resulted in huge multi national operations that caught so many worldwide, and are still ongoing.

Operations Ore and Pin are two that spring to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pin

I don't share your views re charities, by the way. A charity needs good professional staff, both on the ground and in the background to be efficient and successful. You can't expect somebody who could earn in excess of �100k per annum in the private sector to work for nothing. Persuading governments to crack down on paedophilia and sex tourism is a very dangerous scenario, and much harm could be done on a huge scale if it isn't handled properly.

[Ethel]

So, anybody interested?