We Must Stop This Paedomania
Few things make me really ******* angry. This is one of them:
Local authorities around the country are setting up databases to hold records of accusations made about anyone from teachers and doctors to Scout leaders and private tutors.
They are employing staff just to look into the claims - which can be made anonymously - who are required to contact police, social services or the adult’s employer and then keep track of the case.
Details of the allegation will be kept on the accused’s personnel file until they retire so they can be seen by potential employers, and in a reversal of the basic tenet of English law they will only be deemed innocent if they can prove it. (The Telegraph)
You WHAT?!
Let me make sure I’ve got this straight:
- Allegations can be made anonymously
- They will be kept until that person retires
- They can be accessed by potential employers
- And - most disgustingly of all - the accused will only be deemed innocent if they can prove it
******* hell.
I am utterly, utterly appalled.
Yes, I know that children are “vulnerable” and need to be “protected”, but this is just disgusting. It is unacceptable that unsubstantiated anonymous allegations will be held in this way.
I give up hours of my time as a Scout Leader, where I help look after a Troop of nearly 30 young people. We have child protection training and procedures, and no adult is ever left alone with any child. Yet just that this “Allegation Management System” exists could mean that my - or any other volunteer or professionals - career could be blighted by an anonymous allegation made by an angry child. This gives children waaaay too much power over adults. I can certainly see circumstances of “give me/let me do what I want or I’ll claim you abused me” arising under this reprehensible system.
We must stop this paedomania.
It damages the ability of any adult to effectively discipline a child if such a claim can be made and held on their records without a scrap of proof, who in their right minds would work - let alone volunteer - with children?
We must stop this “think of the childdrreeeennnn” mentality and actually use common sense for a change.
Allegations should be investigated, but if there is no evidence, the claim must be regarded as false and the allegation removed from record.
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Too right.
I volunteer at school and with Scouts. This kind of stuff will drive people away from supporting these organisations and donating their time. Who needs this potentially hanging over their head.
Very ugly.
all I can say is that this over valuing children is completely nutty - all it takes to replace them is a quick fuck (unless of course you are one of the many genetic defectives who can’t breed)
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Agree 100%.
I think the possibility of this existing is tied up with RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) 2001, and police-like powers being made available to Uncle Tom Cobley and All.
Culture change needed. 20 year project.
Is Paedomania the best term? We need a good label for it.
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I think there’s a simple solution to this.
Everybody who finds this abhorrent (and I think that’s a lot of us) should research the names and addresses of all council, government employees. Anonymously report ALL of them for kiddy fiddling. If worked at enough allegations could be made that all of them would have trouble proving their innocence in all cases.
Well, I agree with all that you’ve said. The problem, of course, is that psome eople see any any critic of paedophile hysteria as one who has a sort of laissez-faire attitude towards child abuse. The trick, I imagine, comes from pointing out that not wanting teachers and volunteers to give up their positions for fear of being smeared is also thinking of “the childdrreeeennnn”.
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