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- Subject: Re: Child Molestors - internationally organized?
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- From: leb@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 22:29 MST
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- In article <1992Nov17.211708.15580@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
- >egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >:
- >: bill> According to some people from the UK - pedophilia seems to be fairly
- >: bill> well established there. It is not in the US.
- >:
- >: bill> Here in the US - most child molesters are relatives of the child, usually
- >: bill> the father or uncle. There are no organized groups anywhere in the world,
- >: bill> that has been documented.
- >:
- >: First of all, what do they mean by a well-organized group? I believe I saw
- >: on 60 minutes or some such show that pedophiles from all walks of life
- >: from many different countries were taking advantage of the situation in
- >: countries where prostituting children is legal (or at least overlooked),
- >: and that these prostitution rings cater to international pedophiles -
- >: even ones from the US.
- >: Does this constitute an organized group?
- >
- >Can you believe 60 minutes? It is a sensationalistic news broadcast.
- >
- >Note that I was talking about pedophelia and child molestation, here in the
- >US - not in the international scene. It turns out that the largest distributor
- >of "child porn" here in the US is the US government. They use it to attempt
- >to entrap pedopheliacs. Apparently, they have had little success.
- >
- >As far as organized child molestation groups - I don't think they exist.
- >Certainly, there are prostitution "rings" - there are "rings" which will
- >supply anything for which a person is willing to pay a sufficient price.
- >I have seen no documentation that they are organized. In other words,
- >some of the "rings" may know each other - but I doubt if they are organized
- >into cooperative groups. I might be wrong - is there anyone posting here
- >who lives in one of the countries that allows child prostitution?
- >
- >Bill
-
- The name of the U.S. org. is NAMBLI (or something close) -
- North American Man/boy Love I(something).
- I don't know much more than that except they (?) found one meeting in a
- library in LA and were kicked out.
-
- Rodger Coghlan
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