Sarah Payne case cop backs paedophile law for Dorset (From Dorset Echo)
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Sarah Payne case cop backs paedophile law for Dorset
10:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010 in
THE police officer who led the inquiry into the murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne has appealed to Dorset parents and carers to help in the fight against paedophiles.
Now retired, Martyn Underhill has recently moved to the county and is backing a new scheme, known as Sarah’s Law, which will be adopted by police in the county on August 1.
It gives parents, guardians and other third parties the right to ask for information about anyone they suspect is a paedophile who has access to children.
And Mr Underhill urged the Dorset public to use their rights as outlined in the scheme, which he describes as ‘another tool in the tool box in the fight against paedophiles’.
He said: “I would encourage people to report any concerns they may have. I think some people might be nervous about doing so but there has been a pilot scheme and it has worked very well.”
Mr Underhill, now living in Poole, led the inquiry in Sussex nearly 10 years ago which eventually saw predatory paedophile Roy Whiting jailed for life for abducting and murdering the little girl.
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Jamie37
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Congratulations Mr Underhill, this is the result your "heroic" campaign will have again and again. What will happen to the person that abused a child? Somethings really wrong with society now. My Mother told me today, that society has bceome selfish, uncaring and quite hostile. Many of the older generation i think will agree.
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Jamie37 says...
5:25am Thu 11 Mar 10
"Thanks to the Home Office, and the army of campaign groups such as the NSPCC, suspecting another adult of being a paedophile is not exceptional – it is routine."
"The Home Office, campaign groups, charities, tabloids and broadsheets seem oblivious to the fact that their attempts to ‘protect children’ not only have a limited effect – they also corrode adult relationships. One does not just suspect the dodgy-looking fella at the park; one is encouraged to suspect neighbours and even friends."
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This law just feels like the police are handing "after-monitoring" to the public. Giving the right to attack sex-offenders; as once knowing of one, there certainly wont be any peace to follow even had the offender been behaving him or herself.
Can any intelligent and sane person really justify, encourage and promote Sarah's law, when it seems the evil that was done to her, is clearly now turning back onto society? Evil breeds evil unless the higher power can control it, they clearly dont desire to. Perhaps the queen could get society by the scruff of it's neck and remind it what: basic-human-values are.