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Paedophile Alert For Children's Charity
News London-based children's charity Kidscape had its entire computer database stolen Sunday as part of a suspected paedophile operation. The charity is concerned that a paedophile ring planned the burglary in an attempt to target vulnerable children.
[February 1, 2001, 16:10]
News Burst: Paedophile Alert For Children's Charity
News London-based children's charity Kidscape had its entire computer database stolen Sunday as part of a suspected paedophile operation. The police is concerned that a paedophile ring planned the burglary in an attempt to target vulnerable children.
[February 1, 2001, 13:01]
Paedophile Swoop Nets 13-year-old
News Paedophile activity on the Internet in the form of exchanging indecent images of children is growing rapidly. Jones explains that in his experience, the task of proving who is responsible for the paedophile evidence found on a computer hard-drive...
[March 28, 2001, 8:20]
Exclusive: Yahoo! UK Recruits Paedophile 'inspector'
News UK has finally recruited an "inspector" charged with responsibility for dealing with paedophile content polluting its chatrooms, four months after the UK managing director confirmed she would personally oversee the appointment.
[April 6, 2001, 15:42]
Massive Paedophile Operation Leads To Arrests
News Videos, CD-ROMs and thousands of paedophile pictures -- which included images of children being sexually abused -- were also seized in raids in both England and Scotland. DCI Bob McLachlan, head of the Met's Paedophile Unit, explained that...
[January 17, 2001, 13:28]
Chatroom Danger: Flurry Of Net Paedophile Cases Hit Britain
News A flurry of British Net paedophile cases this year has exposed the Internet as an underground network of paedophile rings, where vulnerable children are lured into sexual meetings, and abused for the production and distribution of child pornography.
[March 15, 2001, 16:46]
Another Net Paedophile Sentenced In Britain
News A British paedophile has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after raping a 15-year-old girl that he met in an Internet chatroom. Gloucester Crown Court heard on Thursday how Andrew Hall, 33, used a Virgin Web site to "groom" a girl and...
[April 30, 2001, 7:31]
Police Probe 1,800-strong Internet Paedophile Ring
News Scotland Yard has confirmed reports that it is investigating an Internet paedophile ring that could be the largest ever found in Britain. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said on Monday that the paedophile "club" it is investigating could...
[June 11, 2001, 10:44]
News Burst: Massive Paedophile Operation Leads To Arrests
News DCI Bob McLachlan, head of the Met's Paedophile Unit, explained that the arrests were the result of an intelligence-led operation targeted at stemming the distribution of child pornography via the Net.
[January 17, 2001, 12:54]
ISPs Could Be Forced To Remove Paedophile Content
News The telco, which owns Demon Internet, said Wednesday it will take a more proactive approach to policing and removing paedophile content from newsgroups hosted by its servers, amid growing concerns in the UK that the Internet is teeming with...
[February 21, 2001, 15:05]
Police: Not Enough Evidence For Paedophile Crackdown
News The number of [Net paedophile] cases is in the margins of error -- they are really anecdotal -- the statistics are not possible to quantify," he said. Furthermore, many Internet paedophile incidents fail to bring about successful criminal charges...
[March 22, 2001, 11:25]
Internet Regulator Considers Anti-paedophile Powers
News A drawn-out board meeting on Thursday discussed whether the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) should take greater responsibility for illegal content on the Internet, by considering stronger action to address paedophile activity in Usenet newsgroups.
[November 21, 2001, 6:31]
Home Office Screens Internet Paedophile Warning Ads
News The safety messages, which depict an actor posing as a paedophile, will be aired at cinemas, on commercial radio stations and in teen magazines early in the new year. Girls especially think that they can detect who a paedophile is -- this campaign...
[December 19, 2001, 16:50]
Net Paedophile Investigation Breaks New Ground
News A British police officer has become the first to covertly catch an Internet paedophile using existing UK legislation. Detective inspector Darren Brookes at the West Midlands paedophile unit used covert tactics to investigate a public complaint...
[January 22, 2002, 10:33]
Net Paedophile Gets Five Years
News A paedophile who used the Internet to stalk his victims has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl he met on the Web. It's satisfying to see a severe custodial sentence being pronounced upon a net...
[October 24, 2000, 14:49]
Government Plans Paedophile 'stings', Say Reports
News Green was the first Internet chatroom paedophile to be sentenced in the UK. According to reports, government ministers are calling for the introduction of entrapment procedures that will allow police officers to catch criminals operating in online...
[October 30, 2000, 11:15]
Government Claims Paedophile Laws Do Not Need Updating
News He argues that the three most recent Internet paedophile cases in Britain were unable to prosecute the perpetrator for "conspiracy". The Home Office claims the 40-year-old Indecency with Children Act -- made law in 1960 -- is sufficient to deal...
[November 1, 2000, 6:06]
Yahoo!'s Paedophile Move Does Not Protect Children
News In September, ZDNet UK News reported the presence of chatrooms with paedophile content to Yahoo! ZDNet will publish a Special ZDNet Investigates into paedophile use of the Internet later this month The move by Yahoo.co.uk to block access to...
[February 13, 2001, 10:56]
News Burst: Thus Finds Paedophile Crackdown Impossible
News British telco Thus has cancelled its pledge to remove paedophile content from its newsgroups according to reports by Silicon.com Wednesday. One week into its ambitious crackdown on Internet paedophiles, reports have branded the decision "unworkable...
[February 28, 2001, 15:03]
Blair Considers New Paedophile Laws
News According to reports, Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow told Mr Blair that a 12-year-old in his constituency had been "groomed" by a paedophile while in an Internet chatroom. Paedophiles who approach youngsters through Internet chatrooms could be...
[March 1, 2001, 7:19]
