Sunday, February 25, 2007

Child pornography: harmful or harmless?

Controversial question for the day;

"A few weeks ago, Justice Tim Carmody awarded custody of an eight year old boy to the boy's mother . She's a stripper whose boyfriend happens to be one of Australia's worst child porn addicts.

The man had accumulated a stash of 350,000 images and 6400 videos. He's now on bail.

In his decision to remove the boy from his grandparents in Tasmania and dispatch him to his mother in Perth, Justice Carmody said the man was not a risk to the boy because his "interest is in young girls, not boys."

The court wasn't about making moral decisions, the Judge said. And the man had only downloaded the images - he hadn't actually molested any children."


Listen to one perspective on the issue.

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