O'Connor, a vigilante who poses as teenage boys and girls in order to catch child sex criminals, said that although courts have the power to impose the same sentences as in the UK, they too-often let abusers off with a slap on the wrist, and said that she would support a two-year jail term for the first offence and a five-year term for repeat offenders.
However ironic the JEPaedo's newfound support for campaigners against child abuse, O'Connor is sadly entirely right. Jersey is, and always has been, a safe haven for those who want to abuse children. All you need to do is just look at O'Connor's Facebook page, Unknown Jersey, which documents Cheyenne's efforts to expose nonces and the trials and sentencing of the abusers in question. Robert Lupton le Masurier - attempted to meet a child for sexual grooming, got seven months. Luis Daniel da Silva Ferreria - attempted to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex after six months of grooming, got ten months. Jason Sutton - tried to meet an underage boy for sex in a car park, got ten months. The law states that these guys could've gotten up to 10 years - the courts are setting a consistent pattern of major undersentencing of serious criminals.
I guess my reaction to this sort of thing amounts to "it's a shame, but it's not a shock". Anyone who followed closely the "Independent" Jersey Care Inquiry or the Trevor and Shona Pitman bankruptcy case will know that until a couple of years ago, the Royal Court counted among its Jurats evidenced participants in the Victoria College child abuse coverup. The police investigation into the "paedophile yatchsmen" case, where huge numbers of children from Haut de la Garenne were loaned to rich boatsmen as sex slaves, took 1,776 statements from 192 alleged victims and identified 151 alleged abusers - of those abusers, precisely seven were successfully prosecuted. You have senior politicians who lied to the Care Inquiry, the coverup of serial murder and rape, the illegal dismissal of a police chief because his child abuse investigation refused to be the stage-managed puppet show the official inquiry ended up being and the Mugabe-esque house raid of a senior opposition politician.
You also have the people who masterminded all this - the coverups, the paedophilia, the corruption, the elaborate piece of theatre that was the Care Inquiry - remaining either in major leadership positions or in cushy retirement.. You've got your William Bailhache, your Tim le Cocq, your Philip Bailhache, your Frank Walker, your Terry le Main. All masterminds behind the coverup of the vilest crimes imaginable, and all the ones that got to walk away - along with virtually everyone else the Care Inquiry could've and should've exposed. This society of ours is infested from top to bottom with those who either engaged in or conspired to cover up some of the most disgusting crimes against hundreds of people that you can possibly imagine.
Is it any wonder that these low-level paedos are getting a slap on the wrist? I mean, at least they're getting some sort of punishment. Of course, if they were rich and part of the establishment, the feudal forces who actually dominate our so-called democracy would probably have worked night and day to ensure they got to walk away.
Just like the rest of them.
A shame?
Yes.
A shock?
Hardly.
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