In an episode of the excellent hard-SF series, The Expanse, hard-bitten mechanic Amos Burton (Wes Chatham) comments, Have you ever talked to a pedophile? Amos, whose character is slowly revealed as having had a particularly brutal childhood, is trying to make a point about obsessive addiction: if you show them pictures of kids, then they’ll go on and on and on.
The legacy media in tandem with a slice of the left are on a crusade to convince us that paedophiles are really just “Minor Attracted Persons” — helpless victims of what is really just another in the rainbow of “sexualities”. Which brings up an inconvenient probability: paedophiles are incapable of rehabilitation.
Some of them, at least, are a grim proof of that dark pudding.
Disgraced former pop star Gary Glitter has been recalled to prison after breaching his licence conditions, the Probation Service has said.
The singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was freed in February after serving half his 16-year jail term for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.
He couldn’t even manage a month without being a very-much-offending “Minor Attracted Person”.
He was jailed in 2015 for attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under 13 […]
Gadd had been at the height of his fame when he attacked two girls aged 12 and 13 after inviting them backstage to his dressing room.
His youngest victim had been less than 10 years old when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975.
He was first jailed for child porn in 1999. When he got out of jail for that one, he headed straight overseas. He was expelled from Cambodia in 2002, then jailed for child sex crimes in Vietnam in 2006. He returned to Britain after release from jail — and was soon arrested again for the historic offences.
In 2015 at the time of sentencing, Judge Alistair McCreath said he could find “no real evidence that” Gadd had atoned for his crimes and described his abuse of a girl under 10 as “appalling”.
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At which point it seems fairly safe to say that he’s an unrepentant paedophile.
If nothing else, he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. If you were a serial nonce just out on parole, it’s fairly safe to assume you’re under tight watch. So, what do you do?
Disturbing footage, obtained by The Sun on Sunday, shows Glitter, who has never shown remorse, discussing which search engines to use and referring to accessing the Dark Web.
In the video, he asks a pal: “Shall I get rid of this Duck Duck?”
His friend replies: “Yeah, I wouldn’t bother using that if I were you.”
Glitter then says: “So what do I do next, then? Let’s try and find this Onion. One step at a time.
“Duck Duck” is DuckDuckGo, a browser and search engine which is heavily privacy-oriented — but which has nonetheless admitted to cooperating with authorities where it deems necessary. Oh, no! What’s a nonce to do?
Tor is an even more privacy-oriented browser than DuckDuckGo. While it has legitimate uses — journalists, for instance, trying to avoid being spied on — it’s also the go-to browser for the Dark Web. Tor is an abbreviation of “The Onion Relay”: “onion routing” referring to the multiple layers of relays the browser uses to disguise users’ identity.
Former Det Supt Michael Hames, who set up the Met Police’s Paedophile Unit, told The Sun on Sunday today: “This is extremely disturbing and shows that he’s attempting to access material he should not be accessing.
The incident also calls into question just how effective the system for releasing such sex offenders really is.
A source said: “Glitter has been having the life of Riley at the hostel, is friendly with staff and has also made friends with residents.
“But it makes your stomach turn — especially seeing him asking for advice on his phone usage […]
Glitter refused to engage with prison sex offender treatment programmes and was released from a Dorset jail under cover of darkness on February 3.
At least one of his victims has spoken out about the very fact that he was paroled early. Former police are questioning the wisdom of allowing convicted sex offenders access to what amount to their tools of trade.
Mr Hames, now a safeguarding consultant, added: “Glitter has a total addiction and will always pose a danger to children.
“The fact he has a phone means he could potentially groom people. He could look at images online which would feed his fantasies.
“The best solution would be if he had a simple ‘brick’ phone which you can just make calls on and not access the internet.
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There’s another solution, of course — but we don’t do that any more.