I've come across enough of this type of case in the recent years that it just seems like the justice systems of the West don't really care. Authority figure working with children in possession of enormous amounts of child porn - but they get light punishment, no jail time.
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Part of the defense is that the councillor said he was abused as a child, and did role-playing and receipt of prohibited images in an online child-porn forum as some form of therapy.
He was originally arrested in 2017 and received a suspended sentence, no prison, in 2020.
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Comments from the public on both this tweet and on the Daily Mail article page indicate frustration with the justice system.
Paedophile Labour councillor who worked in children's home walks free
Roger Spackman, 50, who was a Labour councillor on Exeter City Council until his arrest in 2017, worked at a secure children's home at the time he started collecting the huge hoard of images.
Part of the defense is that the councillor said he was abused as a child, and did role-playing and receipt of prohibited images in an online child-porn forum as some form of therapy.
Spackman's barrister Barry White said: 'He likes to pretend he is a young girl who will be abused. He will pretend to be a young girl.'
He was originally arrested in 2017 and received a suspended sentence, no prison, in 2020.
Former Exeter councillor sentenced for child abuse images
Roger Spackman joined an underground internet community where child abuse images were shared.
Comments from the public on both this tweet and on the Daily Mail article page indicate frustration with the justice system.