There is something deeply troubling about a legal system that allows a young man to receive a lenient sentence for making and distributing child pornography and owning over 2000 images, some of children as 2 years old forced into acts that would beggar belief if I did not meet people whom have been in these situations and are coping as best they can.
The focus of the story and the public response is on the fact the perpetrator and maker of child porn went to Eton, is privileged and has a prosperous life ahead of himself and a very very good lawyer -- which presumably all led to his suspended sentence, but I wonder what sort of a life the children forced into child pornography will have, what choices they had? What they will feel like when they have to process the awful truth that heir images are on the internet? What scars do they have to deal with?
This is not just a grave injustice in terms of the implicit fairness of law, we know there is a law for the rich and a law or the poor, after all far poorer and less privileged people have been jailed for life for this crime, but this is yet again a failure for the judge to see this from the victim's point of view. These are children that a young man has taken advantage of, what does leniency say to him as he goes into his life of privilege and opportunity?
This is precisely how we have institutionalised rape in our society. How Saville became the procurator of children to the rich, influential and famous... The system endorses and encourages it... [/rant over]
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Etonian suspended sentence for making child porn
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