uk: Child protection chief slated in paedophile treatment row

A police child protection chief at the centre of a row about how paedophiles should be dealt with yesterday stressed that child sex abuse will not be tolerated.

Jim Gamble of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre was criticised by a children’s charity for arguing that paedophiles convicted of looking at child pornography should not necessarily go to prison.

He argued that the offender could receive a caution and be managed within the community.

He was praised elsewhere for saying that prison alone was not the answer to the problem.