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Josef Fritzl sentenced to life for murder of child
Josef Fritzl is likely to spend the rest of his life in a mental institution after an Austrian jury convicted him today of murdering one of the seven children he fathered by his own daughter.
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UK kids 'Internet savvy'
British children are becoming very internet savvy, according to industry experts, with the average UK child spending 43.5 hours a month online.
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IWF staff threatened after Wikipedia debacle
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has revealed to Computer Shopper that some of its members have received "threats to their safety". The self-regulated internet watchdog said that angry internet users have sent threatening messages to members of its staff following the Wikipedia scandal in December 2008. The IWF has since been forced to take down images of staff from its website, due to fears over their wellbeing.
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Home Office clueless over its own anti-child porn measures
The Home Office has admitted that it has been trying to force ISPs to subscribe to the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) blacklist, even though it doesn't know what the organisation does.
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Paedophile Andrew Lintern jailed for 31 offences
A former Oxford university chemist has been jailed for sexually assaulting a 17-month-old girl and having almost 20,000 child sex images and videos.
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Josef Fritzl admits rape, denies murder
Josef Fritzl, accused of imprisoning his daughter and fathering her children, has pleaded guilty to rape and incest but not guilty to murder.
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Former police officer Thomas Peter Simmons jailed for child porn
A former police officer has today been jailed for making indecent images of children.
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Microsoft backs cybercrime training programme
Under the 2CENTRE (Cybercrime Centres of Excellence Network for Training, Research and Education) scheme, two training centres will be created at the University College Dublin in Ireland and Universite Technologique de Troys in France.
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Child porn 'sent to advice boss' James Rennie by Neil Strachan
An alleged paedophile e-mailed a photo showing a child being abused to the boss of an advice centre for gay and lesbian youngsters, a court has heard.
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Microsoft say Parents see benefits of gaming
New research conducted by Microsoft has suggested that most parents can see the benefits of their children playing video games.
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EU fights huge increase in web child abuse
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European coalition bids to fight online child porn trade
A European coalition of specialist child protection agencies, financial institutions and internet providers has been launched to crack down on the online trade in child abuse images.
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PayPal & CEOP join fight against child exploitation
Profits made by peddlers of child sex abuse images are being targeted by a pan-European alliance.
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Computer engineer found shocking images on PC
A computer engineer found a shock image on a PC he was repairing, a trial heard today.
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Online child abuse images warning
Children's charities have expressed "serious concerns" many UK households still have access to images showing child sex abuse via their computers.
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Colin Murray jailed for child abuse images
A Perth man has been jailed for a year after police discovered more than 550 videos and images of children being abused, during a raid at his home.
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Councillor David Charles admits child porn charges
A paedophile councillor admitted a string of child pornography charges - two-and-a-half years after being arrested.
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Internet safety information launched by BECTA
New training material is to be issued to teachers at schools and colleges around the country by Becta.
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Social networking sites to protect consumers
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SAFER INTERNET DAY 2009
Today is Safer Internet Day and to help people be safer in the home we are offering a massive 20% off Sentry Parental Controls!
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Teacher Steven Vincent Colton admits child porn charges
A County Down grammar school teacher has admitted downloading thousands of images of children being abused.
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Sentry Parental Controls joins the UKCCIS
Sentry Parental Controls are proud to announce their membership with the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS).
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Sentry Parental Controls joins the UKCCIS
Sentry Parental Controls are proud to announce their membership with the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS).
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Southampton man Raymond Morrison changes name after child porn charge
A pervert who downloaded videos of young children being tortured changed his name after pleading guilty to protect his identity.
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Blind paedophile Malcolm Richards who listened to abuse jailed for life
A blind paedophile who revelled in listening to his victims being abused was jailed for life yesterday.
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Doctor Michael Jones jailed for child porn offences
A doctor from Maidenhead has been jailed for distributing child porn.
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Thousands Of MySpace Sex Offender Refugees Found On Facebook
MySpace is in the spotlight today because it revealed that 90,000 registered sex offenders have been kicked off its site in the past two years. But where did all of those sex offenders go? Some evidence suggests that a portion of them are now on Facebook.
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Trevor Buchan escapes jail over child porn
A milkman from Bath who admitted he had a sexual interest in children after he was caught with hundreds of indecent pictures at his home was today described by a judge as one of the "vilest perverts" he had seen for a long time.
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Police helping keep children safe online
Police are to teach school pupils how to stay safe online following the disappearance of Cleethorpes schoolgirl Laura Stainforth.
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Porn hackers target school websites
A number of primary schools' websites have been targeted by online hackers, resulting in pornography being shown on web pages bearing the schools' logos.
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Jail for Jason Hodson, a former ambulance controller who downloaded child porn
A judge has says it is a "tragedy" a trusted ambulance controller came to download child porn images, including youngsters being raped.
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Ex-soldier Ian Horner posed as teenage girl to send child abuse video clips
An ex-soldier is facing a possible jail term after he admitted posing as a teenage girl to send mobile phone videos of children being sexually abused.
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Paedophile David Harper's image in kids' guide
A convicted paedophile appeared in a tourist advertising brochure promoting a children's attraction, the Forest of Dean Council has admitted.
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Michael Morgan jailed after police seize 400,000 child porn images
A 26-year-old man caught with one of the largest number of child porn images ever found in the country has been jailed for ten months.
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Paedophiles Stephen Carruthers and John Bates jailed indefinitely
Two paedophiles who abused young boys at the Blackpool flat they shared have been jailed indefinitely.
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Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan Jailed over Shannon kidnap
The mother of Shannon Matthews has been jailed for eight years for kidnapping her own daughter in an attempt to claim thousands of pounds in reward money.
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Police find 20,000 images on university professor Robert Grimshaw's PC
Families in Ramsbury have been shocked to find out that one of their respected neighbours, university professor Robert Grimshaw, had one of the country?s biggest collections of child pornography stored on his home computer.
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Former West Midlands Fire chief Frank Sheehan waits over child porn
The former West Midlands fire chief is still waiting to hear if he will be charged over child porn allegations.
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Runaway schoolgirl Laura Stainforth back in the UK
Laura Stainforth, the 15-year-old girl who was found in France a week after vanishing from her Lincolnshire home, has returned to the UK.
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Swedish library holds child porn
A Swedish newspaper has revealed the national library has large quantities of child pornography in its collection.
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Missing girl Laura Stainforth found safe in France
Missing 15-year-old schoolgirl Laura Stainforth has been found safe and well in France, police have said.
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NSPCC release child sex abuse figures
Eighty children aged 10 and under were victims of sexual offences in the county last year according to new figures.
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Rape link to suspect Robert Andrew Williams of missing girl Laura Stainforth
A man who detectives believe may have travelled abroad with a missing 15-year-old girl is on bail after he was questioned about a rape, police said.
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Child subjected to pornography whilst playing Xbox Live UNO
Father and three-year-old daughter subjected to pornography whilst playing UNO on Xbox Live.
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Paedophile ring link 'to Maddy McCann'
Detectives hunting for Madeleine McCann have exposed a child pornography network, it was revealed last night.
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US School Children In Child Sex Abuse Ring
Over the newswires, and over the phone networks, Anorak learns of paedo goings on at Greensburg Salem High School, Pennsylvania.
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University professor Robert Grimshaw admits to child porn shame
A professor who worked at the University of the West of England has admitted having more than 20,000 internet child porn images and videos.
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Gary Glitter drops sex register appeal
Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter has abandoned his legal battle against having to sign the sex offenders register, a court official has said.
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Sailor Paul Opie jailed for filming shipmates in showers
A sailor who cut holes in a shower block to film his female shipmates was jailed for two years yesterday.
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Facebook used to catch burglar by posting footage
Police in New Zealand nabbed a burglar after posting security camera footage of him trying to crack a bar's safe on the Internet networking site Facebook.
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Headteacher Andrew Melville escapes jail sentence
A PRIMARY school headmaster who was sacked after being caught with hundreds of child pornography pictures has escaped a jail sentence.
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Paedophile Michael Arnot brands police Nazis
A paedophile banned from having access to the internet was caught with a computer in his home in Galashiels and a mobile phone with internet access after he sent an abusive letter to social work staff condemning his punishment - by email.
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Teacher Andrew Melville in child porn 'cover-up'
A colleague of a head teacher arrested on child porn charges tried to cover up the case by asking a janitor to buy all copies of the local newspaper.
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Convicted sex offender Russell Wilkinson found playing with children
A former fast food worker who was caught with child porn has been spotted playing with youngsters outside an East Lancashire church.
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15 months in jail for Paul Dunn, who shared child porn photos
A PAEDOPHILE has been jailed for distributing ten indecent images of children.
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Male nurse Martin Withers had library of vile child porn on computer
A nurse caught with a library of child porn on his computer has been struck off for behaviour ?fundamentally incompatible? with his profession.
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Porn shame of Jonathan Wright, a church youth worker
A Met Office worker, who was involved with a church youth club, was downloading child porn on the internet at his city home, Exeter Crown Court has heard.
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Grand Designs architect David Williams jailed for child porn
An architect whose work featured on Channel 4?s Grand Designs has been jailed for possessing thousands of pictures of child pornography.
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Child pornography 'addict' Jonathan Hyatt jailed for four months
A man addicted to child pornography has been jailed for four months.
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PC Advisor praises our Child Protection Software
PCAdvisor.co.uk, one of the leading software reviewers, has given Sentry Parental Controls a 4.5 out of 5 in one of the highest rated security software reviews.
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PC Advisor applaudes Sentry Parental Controls
PCAdvisor.co.uk, one of the leading software reviewers, has given Sentry Parental Controls a 4.5 out of 5 in one of the highest rated security software reviews.
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Bride-to-be shops paedophile fiance Richard Manley
A bride-to-be dumped her fiance just five days before their wedding when she discovered he was a paedophile.
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Sheriff to view Andrew Melville child porn images
A sheriff has deferred sentence on a former East Lothian headmaster who admitted possessing and distributing child pornography to view the images.
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KING George V principal Hilary Anslow gives evidence in child porn trial
King George V College's principal told a court she was advised not to tell police about a teacher she confronted about searching the internet for child porn.
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999 worker Jason Hodson convicted of child porn
An ambulance worker has been convicted of making more than 11,000 child porn images.
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Concerns over Philip Carpenter porn charge
Sick fantasies were being fuelled by child porn found at an internet pervert's city home, Exeter Crown Court has been told.
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Ambulance worker Jason Hodson convicted 50 child porn charges
An ambulance controller has been convicted of making more than 11,000 child porn images.
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Computer trail in Benjamin Williams porn quiz
THE trial of a former Liverpool Labour councillor accused of having child porn has heard evidence from a computer expert.
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Charges Change for Joe Shaw
A former Wigan Labour councillor is facing amended charges in relation to alleged child porn offences.
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Judge gives Neil Porter shorter jail term so that he can be at the birth of his second child
A paedophile who downloaded hundreds of child sex images has been given a shorter jail term so that he can be at the birth of his second child.
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Craig Meehan abandons child porn appeal
Karen Matthews' former partner today abandoned his appeal against conviction for downloading indecent images of children.
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Craig Meehan to launch child porn appeal
The former partner of Karen Matthews is appealing against his conviction for possessing child pornography.
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Internet 'groomer' Kevin King targeted 14 year old
A Bury St Edmunds man, who groomed a vulnerable 14-year-old girl for sex after meeting her on a website, has been jailed.
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Child porn man Aston Dalzell Piper evades prison
A MAN convicted of possessing more than 2,000 child pornorgraphy images has escaped imprisonment.
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James Ridyard jailed over sex attacks on girls
A loner who preyed on schoolgirls has been jailed indefinitely for a string of sex offences.
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Australian Internet "filter" will censor peer-to-peer traffic too
Back at the beginning of the 20th Century the Australian government was obsessed with constructing the Rabbit Proof Fence; a hundred years on it is even more obsessed with enforcing its own brand of Internet censorship and building the Content Proof Electronic Fence. The Rabbit Proof Fence didn't work for long as the critters simply burrowed under it. The content Proof electronic fence won't work either because content will out.
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Paul Kidd's victims may come forward
Detectives say more victims of former royal butler Paul Kidd may come forward after he was jailed for carrying out a string of sex attacks on children.
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Child abuse police seek 'witness'
Police are urgently trying to identify a man who could hold vital information about a case of child abuse.
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Ex-royal butler Paul Kidd jailed for sex abuse of boys
As a former royal butler, Paul Kidd seemed to have the utmost respect for the monarchy, rushing to its defence on many occasions.
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Church elder Bevan Andrew Waller admits child porn charge
A Church elder said to be addicted to porn took his laptop to a police station and confessed that he had been downloading child images.
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Sex killer Peter Tobin plays games in jail with paedophile policeman Iain Duncan
Sex killer Peter Tobin has struck up a prison friendship with a shamed paedophile cop - over board games.
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Paedophile royal butler Paul Kidd to be sentenced
A paedophile royal butler from Greater Manchester who took one of his victims for tea with the Queen Mother is set to be sentenced.
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Child porn son Lee Hunter follows dad to jail
A son has followed his father into prison after both of them were jailed for possessing child pornography.
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Teacher Matthew Underwood Accused Of Child Porn Offences Walks Free From Court
A secondary school teacher from Ely accused of downloading indecent photographs of children on to a laptop has walked free from court.
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Father Kenneth John Freeman raped his daughter and posted videos on the internet
A man who raped his daughter and posted videos of the abuse online before fleeing the country pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court and likely faces the rest of his life in prison.
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Three-time offender Richard Blakeley had online child porn
A businessman found to have more than 7,000 indecent images of children on his computer at work has been jailed for 12 months.
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Teacher Jailing Moyes jailed for downloading child porn
A pervert teacher who served a prison term for bedding a 14-year-old boy was yesterday sent back to jail for downloading child porn.
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Porn trial teacher Matthew Underwood 'alerted head first'
A TEACHER cleared of downloading indecent images of children says he is relieved to put the ordeal behind him.
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Police release picture of 'child abuse witness' on BBC's Watchdog
Detectives took the unprecedented step today of issuing pictures of a potential witness in a child sex abuse inquiry.
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Security services want personal data from sites like Facebook
Ministers say terrorists and other criminals are using free websites as a way of concealing their communications. The government is drawing up plans to give the police and security and intelligence agencies new powers to access personal data held by internet services, including social network sites such as Facebook and Bebo and gaming networks.
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Wikipedia censorship by IWF highlights a lingering sting in the tail
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Andrew Keen: Community self-policing is the way to tackle internet child porn
What's the best way to fight child pornography and other illegal forms of child abuse on the internet? The British model focuses on the establishment of a democratically self-regulatory body called the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a community hotline to flag inappropriate content. In Australia, in contrast, the government has introduced a trial net filtering system designed from above to stop adults downloading child porn.
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Men charged for global porn links
Australian police have charged 19 men with being part of a global child pornography network involving people in 70 countries.
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IWF appeals procedure reverses Wikipedia block
Wikipedia should be back to normal for people, i.e. anonymous editing from UK connections should work, and where the site was slowing down due to being passed through a providers IWF proxy this should have gone away.
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Aqueduct suicide for Paul Brindley over porn case
An IT consultant jumped to his death from an aqueduct after being remanded on bail on child porn charges.
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Wikipedia 'may challenge' IWF ban
The founder of Wikipedia has told Channel4 News that he is considering challenging in court the decision to block access to part of Wikipedia in Britain.
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John Francis Springall, 77, is accused of abusing girls
A MAN of 77 described in court as 'an ingrained paedophile' has gone on trial for allegedly sexually abusing young girls in Plymouth nearly 40 years ago.
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Robert Edward Bill 'found with 730 child porn pics on computers'
A suspect impeded a police investigation into indecent images of children by arranging for a laptop computer?s hard drive to be destroyed, it was alleged yesterday.
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Naked Bart Simpson Is Paedophilia And Child Porn
To Australia, where Justice Michael Adams dismisses the appeal made by Alan John McEwan over his conviction for possessing child pornography and using his computer to access child pornography.
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Sentry Parental Controls Becomes a Member of ISPA
Sentry Parental Controls is delighted to announce that they have been approved for membership with ISPA, the Internet Service Provider Assosciation.
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