Gromit
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There's a discussion going on in the uk.legal newsgroup regarding an article in the Yorkshire Post it concerns a photographer being prosecuted for child porn. The consensus appears to be that the guy didn't do anything wrong and was only sentenced because he pleaded guilty.
In the view of the judge he acted "perfectly properly" and took the photos at the request of the parents who the judge said "were perfectly law-abiding, sensible people who cared for their children."
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BigWill
Gorgeous oversensitive Nikon-loving cream puff
Reged: 08/09/2000
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Loc: Northern Ireland
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Three things I think we can learn from this:
1. Never leave your photos into bonus-print to get developed
2. The law is an ass
3. If you're going to take photos of fairies make sure he's a 21 year old from Doncaster called Nigel who's intrests include chrocheting and looking good down the disco in a skin tight pink catsuit! 
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RovingMike
I had a dangly thing
Reged: 16/05/2006
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Loc: Herts
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They should make his 150 hours of community service taking pictures of kids to turn into fairies. That would close the circle of nonsense perfectly. Why do we have to put up with this cr*p? Isn't there someone we can hang from a gibbett in a public place for inflicting moronity on society? Not that I'm a violent person mind, but cr*p is cr*p and needs to be recognised as such.
BTW I received a similar request a few years ago from friends to take naked photos of their baby daughter on a rug and refused.
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TheFatControlleR
L'éminence Grise, Devil's Advocate & AP Fanboy!
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The judge added: "What is clear is that you had no base motive, no sexual motive and there was not any question of deriving sexual gratification from what you were doing."
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Passing sentence, Judge Lawler QC added: "You always acted perfectly properly and their parents were perfectly law-abiding, sensible people who cared for their children."
Having said all that, was there even a case to answer? 
Perhaps the police & the CPS should be charged with wasting public money!
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RovingMike
I had a dangly thing
Reged: 16/05/2006
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Loc: Herts
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Not wanting to get to philosophical, but the law and justice are totally different concepts running on different rails. Sometimes close together and sometimes in opposite directions.
They answer to different needs and are frequently mutually exclusive. It is folly to try to hold the two up together and see if they are identical; they won't be.
The law often does not recognise common sense, but justice is usually based on it. Common sense often does not recognise political expediency, but the law is usually based on it. There. 
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numanoid
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It annoys me that when I take the kids to the soft play centre I'm not allowed to get the camera out, not even my phone. Recently my daughter had a sports day. I didnt bother taking the video camera cos I knew I'd be told to switch it off, but not so, plenty of others wwere filming yet because of a nanny state I missed out!
Cant even photograph your own kids, very sad!
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Edited by numanoid (07/08/2008 11:46)
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alanS
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Reged: 30/09/2005
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Loc: Up North, England.
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Nothing should surprise us anymore.
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gollum
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Reged: 18/12/2007
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Loc: Kent
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The laws an ass no question, ive taken plenty of my kids when they were little, never had a problem then with processing, we have become a nanny state!
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Mark101
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Reged: 15/03/2007
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Loc: Lincolnshire
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The laws an ass no question, ive taken plenty of my kids when they were little, never had a problem then with processing, we have become a nanny state!
I'd disagree, more of a parent parnoid state, as in mentally retarded parents.
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Learning
Ethelred the Ill-Named
Reged: 26/09/2006
Posts: 2334
Loc: Nottingham
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Where does the Reverend Dodgeson fit into this? Was he a 'dirty old man'?.
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beejaybee
Marvin
Reged: 18/07/2007
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Loc: Really Here In Name Only
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Where does the Reverend Dodgeson fit into this? Was he a 'dirty old man'?.
Possibly; IIRC he was a professor of mathematics at Oxford University, who also wrote children's fantasy under the nom-de-plume Lewis Carroll.
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mtop6867
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Reged: 07/07/2008
Posts: 5
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So do paedophiles really get their pics processed at Bonusprint?!
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