Northumbria Police Farce

Hard News Exclusive

Here in Britain there is a satirical television programme that looks at events and pokes fun at the idiocies of establishment. In the opening cartoon credits, it shows a litter lout being arrested while in the background a terrorist escapes with radiological material. Well life does imitate art, sometimes in the most frightening way.

While investigating a dating site that appeared to be a clever fraud, I discovered evidence of a very serious crime. I called the police, showed them the evidence and they arrested me.

I will now warn my reader, that this posting is disturbing and upsetting, but the crimes that I discovered were Child Prostitution, Paedophilia and the active abuse of children.

The fraud appeared to be an almost perfect one, after all it would be impossible to prove that someone paying membership of the website was being deliberately defrauded and was not just unlucky in love and unable to get a date. However while investigating what appeared to be this fraud, I started to notice adverts that implied that the person was underage. However in almost all cases another interpretation was possible.

As the website is UK based, I found it hard to believe this was happening, especially as all the adverts are pre approved. Therefore I dug a little deeper. As I did I started to realise that these adverts were genuine and that children were, or were being, offered for sex. However none of the evidence on the site was that clear, nor were the adverts that blatant, if I had called in the police then it could all have been dismissed as misinterpretations.

Therefore the only way of trying to get at the truth was to try and talk to the other parties. Even at this point I was not convinced that these adverts were genuine, and that the website operators were trying to lure men into paying for access to the site by adverts that were misleading and false.

I was getting no where, as I don’t really sit at the computer for hours chatting, and to make contact I needed to be live on line at the same time as the other party. The shocking breakthrough came over the Christmas period, as well as the realisation that if these really were children then of course they would only be on the site when on school holidays and after school.

What also shocked me was the discovery that these children were local. I am not just talking in the same region, but are in the same borough and neighbouring borough respectively. However what these children revealed was sickening, and following one conversation I had to part with my previous meal.

While I will spare you most of the detail, I concentrated on trying to gain information that would enable the police and child protection authorities to identify, rescue and protect these children. And I do mean children, not young women of fifteen, one of these children is ten. This information I was able to get, as well as other detail that would help the police to prosecute at least twelve active paedophiles.

I even typed the information up ready for when the police arrived having called them to report what I had discovered. Including the full address of the company operating the website. But it was not until the following day that the police attended. Then instead of sending a specialist officer or a detective, two wooden tops turned up. While that is a term that I would not normally use, and is a name that is used inside the police force for the beat Bobbies, here it seems totally appropriate.

They were hostile towards me from the moment they arrived. Instead of letting me explain what I had discovered they were firing questions at me and not letting me answer, rather like a dumb cop and dumber cop act. I showed them the evidence and this included an image that appeared to me to be of child pornography, well I never expected this to trigger them arresting me and seizing my computer.

There actions just defy logic. I called them in, and showed them an image that was seriously suspect, that was on a website. Gave them the details of children that are in danger of serious abuse, rape and incest and they arrest the person reporting these crimes.

Now my own situation I will come back to latter, but what alarmed me and has continued to distress me, is that absolutely no action was taken or has been taken to protect these children.

Immediately I was released I wore to my local Member of Parliament, to try and ensure that the police actually dealt with the real crime and that action was taken to protect these children who are not only at risk, but are in danger. Even that has not prompted the police into action. It was the need for the authorities to take action, which prevented me from posting here on these events sooner. But it is clear that the police are ignoring the real crimes that are being committed against children today and tomorrow, shows that we have a Police Farce and not a police force.

Last year there was a frenzy generated by the media over the tragic murder of a child we have come to know as Baby P. In the news this week is another council who has deemed to have failed the children they are responsible for protecting. Again the media are calling for heads to roll, this time in the shape of the Directly Elected Mayor of Doncaster.

Yet the real tragedy is that Child protection services in this country are appalling, and frequently fail children. There are individuals that in spite of the system do more than their best to help protect, nurture and care for children, but on the whole the system does not work nor has it done for years. I know, as I was a victim and survivor of abuse. Yet in spite of well meaning but misguided social workers, child psychologists, and the police, I was kept in the place where I was being abused, physically, sexually and emotionally.

It took me many years to recover from that, and even now I still suffer from debilitating depression as a result of this traumatic loss of childhood. Therefore I am in the unenviable position of understanding just how much damage these children are suffering, and the long-term effects that abuse can cause. When I discovered and promptly reported what I had discovered I never expected praise or reward. The real reward would have been knowing that the children were protected and that a local paedophile ring had been broken.

I am very angry and deeply upset by the events and the way the police have treated this matter. Even my solicitor cannot comprehend the police actions here. I am not talking about my treatment by the police either, bad as that has been. But the fact that the website that is hosting these adverts is still up and running. When the evidence I provided showed they were knowingly hosting these adverts. That no action was taken by the police to protect the children that are being sexually abused. That I had, all be it inadvertently, opened a way into this dirty and depraved world for the police and they ignored that.

While it is not common for hard news to be broken on a Web Log, let alone a story as big as this, the police have destroyed the opportunity to track down and catch hundreds of men that are actively seeking sex with children and to protect forty or fifty children.

This posting should have been about a major success by the police in breaking a local and possibly a national paedophile network. But as so often happens with child protection another example of missed opportunities and failures.

Now I don’t want to trivialise any of the events, but as well as the shear incompetence of the police, there was an incident that just beggars belief. When I was arrested, I told the arresting officer that I had a cat and I was concerned for her welfare. Having never been arrested before, ever, I had no idea how long I was likely to be away. So I made sure there was food and water for her. On my return she was skittish and had obviously been frightened. I left her to herself so that she could regain her confidence. The following day, I saw that the side of her face was swollen and that she had a blood bruise to her right eye. She had been kicked. Now animal cruelty is a crime, and as there had been no one else in the house but the police, well my conclusions were obvious. I will post the pictures of her injury here latter when I am able to do so.

I personally have no confidence left in the local police what so ever. They have misused their powers. One Journalist that I have spoken to says that my arrest was likely to have been for obtaining a DNA sample rather than any suspected offence, that makes it an unlawful arrest, and an abuse of police powers. Further, is the fact that I called them in to report a crime or series of crimes. While I agree that child pornography is a serious crime, and it is right that the police investigated that too, I was not in possession of this. The image was on a web server.

Now if the police arrest everyone that reports these images, I can see that people will not report them from fear of arrest. That will only serve to stop the police dealing with this crime.

I am going to be contacting the mainstream media regarding this matter as all that has happened to me, mirrors the stories that so often emerge after there are headline grabbing incidents regarding Child protection issues. That of failed and missed opportunities, complacency and shear bloody laziness.

I had really hoped that I would be starting this year with hope, but I am forced to start this year with despair.