It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

— Christopher Eccleston

“I did not want to lose sight of the fact that for every criminal I have to deal with, no matter how big or…

— Melisa Mel

“Talk of "witch-hunts" conceals an inconvenient fact: men charged with rape stand a better chance of walking free than other defendants. The conviction rate…

— Joan Smith

“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused and their…

— Michael Salter

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where…

— Trevor Phillips

“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts and false…

— Ross Cheit

“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments'. which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only one feeling,…

— Alice Jamieson

“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive evidence that…

— Anna Salter

“Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought, claiming that…

— Joan Smith

“The abnegation of empathy in the case of something as complex and variable as sexual taste is a dangerous thing. The particular misfortune of…

— Derren Brown

“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from…

— Michael Salter

People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.

— Quentin S. Crisp

“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded from the…

— Michael Salter

“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of…

— Michael Salter

“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose premeditated, sadistic…

— Michael Salter