If I set up an anti-paedophile vigilante group in the UK......?

Question

.....and was arrested for assaulting one of them,would the Police let me off?Do you think the Police and public would support me?

Answer 1

No. Assault is assault, whether or not the victim has a history of paedophilia.

The only circumstances in which you could expect leniency is if you were actually preventing a crime from taking place (that is, if you caught a kiddie-fiddler in the act).

Answer 2

An interesting question.

I think there would be a large amount of support from the general public but they're not your problem.
Any support from the police would be from themselves as individuals, parents, etc, but you have to remember you would be breaking the law and to stop everyone taking the law into their own hands they would have to arrest you.

Most Police are as sickend by Paedophiles as the general public if not more so because they have to deal with them directly and the aftermath of what they do but where do you draw the line?
Do we then have groups attacking burglars? Car thieves? Speeding offenders? People who drop litter?
It sounds easy to draw the line in theory but what happens when an innocent man (sooner or later you WILL get the wrong man) you beat him up and he dies of his injuries because he had a heart defect or an illness you didn't know about?

Personally, (as a parent) i'd love to see them all hang because there is no cure, they will always be looking for the next child but beating then up will not make the slightest diffrence.
In fact it will make them become more difficult to catch as they spend much more time covering their tracks.

We can only keep track of them much better than we are now, and serial offenders should be permanantly locked away.

Pity we can't just drop them all off into down-town Bagdad.

Answer 3

Just read an article where a group of four people, two men and two women lured a man in his 40's with a mental age of a child into a house, tortured him and beat him up, dumped him in a river and kept pushing him under the water until he drowned.

This was done because one of the 'men' thought he was a paedophile because he talked to a 4 year old boy.

I don't like paedophiles I want to see them kept in prison once they are caught, but I don't want vigilante's either, what might they decide next is not fit for society?
People who wear the wrong type of clothes?

Answer 4

The problem then arises that the family of the victim of your beating might start an anti-vigilante vigilante group and beat you up, whereupon your supportors would feel the need to begin an anti-anti-vigilante group, etc.

That's why we have laws and a police service.

Unofficially, though, they might find it very difficult to come across proof or witnesses and you might get away with a warning to stay out of trouble, if the injuries the nonce sustained were not too serious.

Answer 5

fraid not, police cant let you off despit your motivation for committing the offence.

The police's job is to follow through evidence to a conclusion despite their personal feelings about it.

Apart from that point imagine the precedent that would set, there would be vigilante's all ober the place.

No the law is there for a reason and the brave trained boys and girls of law enforcement do it for the best reason possible, to see justice done, not some personal vendetta against alleged criminals.

sorry mate we all want to see peadophiles castrated and tortured, but vigilante's would get sent o tjail and then who's that helping.

I think public support would be divided most people dont like the idea of vigilante as they like the idea that society isnt gone mental, and they would be alittle scared.

but i imagine there would be some support.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Why would the public support you for breaking the law ? I would think even the most stupid would appreciate that anarchy of this sort would be completely counter-productive. One thing writing about it on yahoo answers, another living in a society accepting such behaviour.

As to whether convicted paedophiles should be treated differently to currently - that is a completely different question. Just because I would never support vigilantism does not necessarily mean that I would not support toughing the legal measures available.

Answer 8

No. That's what we have the law for.

How can you know, with absolute certainty, that you're dealing with a paedophile? In the 1990s the News of the World published pictures and personal details of convicted paedophiles and a mob of vigilantes reacted in Portsmouth where, among other crimes, they attacked a paediatrician - that's the standard of proof you can expect from mob rule and vigilantes.

What would you accept as justifying an assault? Guilty verdicts in the courts, the testimony of a child (and believe me, they do lie), rumour or simply a feeling that somebody was a bit weird. And where would you choose to draw the line? Would you give a 16 year-old who is having sex with a fifteen year old a good shoeing? Because legally they're paedophiles. Andf what if the 16 year old was a girl and the 15 year old a boy? Do you think he'd appreciate you assaulting his girlfriend?

If you want to punish paedophiles, get to law school and do it properly. Or you're just part of the problem.

Answer 9

The public might be a bit sympathetic to your cause but I think the police would take a different view of it

Answer 10

you would probably have most the publics support but i would say the police would not be very happy and the courts would probably make an example of you

Answer 11

No to all of those.

We have a system, like it or not, and no society should have individuals being judge and jury.

Do you remember the News Of The World campaign? A pediatrician was attacked because the mob did not know what a pediatrician was.

If it was down to vigilanties, anyone could say that there annoying neighbour was a pedofile to get revenge for something and where would that leave us?

The courts take a very dim view of revenge and vigilante acts, as well they should.