The internet may be responsible for creating a new breed of sex criminals, a leading clinical psychologist has warned.Speaking in the wake of Scotland’s most serious paedophile conspiracy trial, Ethel Quayle, a child abuse expert, said that the opportunity to access instant images of abuse appears to be responsible for the emergence of “novel behaviour” in some men, transforming the minority who may be potential child abusers into online voyeurs and potential sex criminals.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6251919.eceScottish paedophile ring found guilty of more than 50 charges
A ring of eight paedophiles, including a former welfare campaigner for young gay men, were today convicted of child abuse and producing indecent images of children. The men, from across central Scotland, were found guilty by a jury in Edinburgh of more than 50 charges, ranging from abusing infants from three months old to conspiracy and holding more than 125,000 images of child pornography.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/07/scottish-paedophile-ring-guilty-child-abusePaedophile gang preyed on children of close friends
A paedophile gang that carried out a series of attacks on children and infants, including a three-month-old baby, were found guilty yesterday at the High Court in Edinburgh in a groundbreaking legal case.
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