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The scary thing is most holiday/seaside towns here have these filth mixing with families.
These Sex offenders who get disowned by their Families when convicted when they get released they have no one only other Sex offenders they met in their Sex offenders Prisons.
All seaside Towns have cheap flats/ bedsits the social pay for and in the summer these freaks get a free peep show.
I live by the sea and I'm not paranoid but got my six year old to take up body boarding she wears a wet suit loads of locals do the same.
These offenders only get worse once they get convicted of filth their next offence will be on a new filth level.
On Sex offenders Courses they all have to do these days some try and out filth each other in groups talking about their crimes, surly even the softest do gooders can see the should never be let out because they will if given the chance act out their filthy **** fantasy.

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The media have a lot to answer for when it comes to the varying and often contradictory reports we're getting. In an effort to report something and fill their pages/airtime they seem to take any unattributable quote, rumour or snippet of suspect information and either exaggerate or misreport it. Once seen in the papers or on TV these then become the so called 'facts' we all debate.

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Do you know this, or are you assuming? Bear in mind that the media seem to be spending an awful lot of time hyping up the threat of child sex offenders. Also, how many sex offenders are there? The largest haul I heard of was as a result of that FBI operation a couple of years back that netted around 7,000. 7,000 is an awful lot, but when you consider it covered at least the United Kingdom and the United States (combined population nearly 300 million) as well as other countries, it may not be as bad as the media make out.

With an intercom, I would have thought you would be OK.

That's the trouble with our current 24 hour a day news obsession. Companies are fighting so hard for the next "exclusive" that they aren't following proper journalistic procedure (ie checking their facts). Take the Iraq war. According to Private Eye, the BBC were so desperate for content to fill News 24 during that period that they were asking any crew member who bought in a tape to write reports which were then read out.

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Have Google by any chance introduced a "pay per click" for the word "Filth"?

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Maybe saying that the parents are to blame is a bit strong and insensitive for now, and in my opinion they will be forever blaming themselves if the poor girl is not found alive or at all.

The thing is if these parents had left their kids unsupervised in the UK and a horrible accident had fallen on one of them at home, say one fell down the stairs etc, however innocently, it is quite likely that the parents would have been arrested/questioned for leaving their children unsupervised at home whilst eating out.

In my opinion they were totally out of order to leave her alone, and I agree with previous posters that they should take a lot of responsibiltiy for this. Yes, you should be able to leave your kids alone in a park for example or in the garden without the fear of them being abducted, but this was a hotel room at night while the parents were off wining and dining.

This the real world and unfortunately the real world is not as safe as we want it to be.

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Some Government facts for you

1.The stark reality is that the overwhelming number of acts of child sexual abuse are committed by a family member or someone known to the child. Some 75 per cent of abused children do not tell anyone about this abuse at the time of their being abused. They often wait until they are teenagers or young adults before reporting the crimes committed. Therefore, the majority of current sex offenders are not identified for their crimes.


2.Prison authorities state that only 11 per cent of offenders respond to treatment. Of the 5,000 men in prison for sex offences, only 786 completed the programme last year. Roy Whiting, who was responsible for abducting, assaulting and murdering Sarah Payne, refused to undergo any such treatment.

Re-offending rates are disturbingly high among sex offenders�it is up to 43 per cent. If the therapy programme is not more extensively applied, and offenders get no help in changing their behaviour, by not offering treatment to adult offenders, we release them to commit further offences.

3.It is sadly a fact that almost one-third of all paedophiles fail to fully comply with their licensing agreements, or disappear. This figure will probably increase if the public is allowed access to information on where they live. The most likely increase will be among predatory paedophiles, who will disappear if they fear identification.

The agencies engaged in the multi-agency public protection arrangements outline the problems of predatory paedophiles who disappear from surveillance. Not only do they no longer know where they are living, they are unable to monitor potential opportunities for them to re-offend�such as whether they are living near a school, or have formed a relationship with a mother of young children.

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So why did you want to send that bloke who thought he'd slept with someone of legal age to prison to mix with these foul people?

Personally, I believe convicted child abusers should be locked away for life.
Releasing a paedophile is just too risky.

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Update.

Sky News are reporting that Man United's Cristiano Ronaldo has released a public plea asking the safe return of the missing girl, Madeleine McCann. The video of this can be seen at the following link:-

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...264705,00.html

There are also unconfirmed reports that man has been spotted with a child matching Maddie's description at a roadblock near Nelas in the north of the country.

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Sadly now being reported as a false alarm.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakin...y98&n=93544276

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Is anyone watching the News Special on this on ITV?

They've just been discussing the fact that the parents left the children alone, and they were saying how they think the parents did everything correct by checking on the children... not being to far away etc etc...
I'm not about to be ranting off about how disgraceful it was of them to leave them in the room while they went for a meal, but i do think it's rather irresponsible for the evening news to say stuff like this... surely that just tells the more common sense deficient people that it's okay to nip out to the shop while the kids are in bed?:shrug:
Of course i also wouldn't expect this show to give the parents a hard time either....but still??

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The TV and press media is acting in an irresponsible manner towards this story.

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According to Sky News - there has been a significant development:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...264945,00.html

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The thing is, as with many european countries, they police are not allowed to discuss the case with the media like they do in the UK incase it jepodises any trials.
Makes sense to me, but the UK media isn't happy about it.

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I noticed that where the link on the Sky news website once was called 'Missing Madeleine', it now just says 'Madeleine'... :erm:

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNew...15990820070512

Madeleine's birthday today.