I read the following quote this morning over breakfast and abandoned breakfast after the second paragraph, before I decided not to read the rest of the much longer article after the end of the quote because what I read had already sickened me enough.
Leaving aside all the serious and delicate considerations, including the fact that some people who have been abused go on to be abusers (but most don’t), and without getting all vengeful and hysterical about death penalties and so on, I think there is a solid and unchallengeable argument that the good of the human species dictates that such people should be removed from the gene pool by killing the bastards at every opportunity.
Face haunts pedophile-busters
Michael McKenna | March 08, 2008
IT’S a face that haunts police around the world.
A young girl, probably now nine, who has grown up from infancy on film - thousands of pictures and movies shot of her being molested by an abuser who then shared the images with a network of like-minded internet pedophiles.
As a two-year Queensland-led investigation culminated last weekend with the arrest of 22 people in eight countries, the relief and celebration at busting one of the world’s longest-running and most sophisticated internet pedophile rings was muted by the knowledge that the girl was still out of reach of protection.
Despite the best efforts of Task Force Argos, the Queensland Police Service’s much-lauded child sex unit, and their international counterparts, including the FBI, there are only two things the investigators know about the girl: the country in which she lives and that she is now in real danger.
It is a terrifying truth that yesterday choked up one of Queensland’s most case-hardened policemen.
The Argos chief, Detective Superintendent Peter Crawford, briefly excused himself from his office during an interview when asked about the girl - a “collector’s item” for pedophiles who prize the series that captured her abuse over possibly seven years.
“It is obviously distressing for police to see a young child abused and continued to be abused over a long period of time and not be able to identify or remove them from harm,” he later said.
“Some of these people are collectors, they want a whole series of a particular child growing up, being abused.”
One of Crawford’s inspectors, Jon Rouse, who led the investigation - codenamed Operation Achilles - is blunt about her possible fate.
“The thing is the offender knows we are closing in, we are very worried about her safety,” he said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23338907-2702,00.html