Paedophiles could be stripped of parental rights under new law

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68830796

by Alert-One-Two

20 comments
  1. Must say, I’m very surprised this isn’t already the case!

  2. Yeah I thought this happened already, if your a s*x offender surely your on the register and can only have supervised access at best

  3. I can’t even lie, if pedos were stripped of…yeah all the rights, that would be good

  4. I struggle to imagine how it was possible for this to not already be the law, but I’m very glad that it is being changed.

  5. The fundamental problem here is less the one of Parental Responsibility, but that the government has largely abolished access to the family court by scrapping family legal aid in most cases and by creating huge waiting lists for the court.  

     In the past this was resolved by the non-offending parent applying for a prohibited steps order with a legal aid barrister to guide them through the process.  

     Since the government destroyed that option we’re left with this sticking plaster approach.

    I’ll also note that it only applies in the most extreme cases, parents of children whose other parent has committed a less severe offence against children are still going to be stuffed by the wider systemic issue.

  6. Good!!!! They should also be put on an island with no Internet access

  7. *new* law. Why isn’t this a very old, very obvious law

  8. Why only paedophile? This should expand to most crime imo

  9. Or better yet…stop or extremely limiting any convicted rapist having any access to current or future children?

    Also why cut the law 13? What’s the difference between a 13 year old and a 14 year old?

  10. You know what stops parental access and access to children in general?

    Prison.

  11. The title is misleading. Child sexual offenders could be stripped of parental rights. It’s not illegal to be a pedophile. It’s illegal to act on the urges. If we could do a better job of communicating that distinction we’d be able to get pedophiles into treatment before they offend. But I see that’s never going to happen.

  12. So..
    Paedophiles have had parental rights before? That seems…very strange indeed

  13. Pretty sure they already can be, but there’s not really a reason not to make it automatic.

  14. I watched a clip from what I think was a channel four documentary about exactly this. A lady found out her partner had previously sexually abused children. By this point she already had kids with him. She left, with the children, yet the partner still was legally allowed access to the kids they had together. It’s insanity.

  15. The question is, why wasn’t this a no brained in the beginning? 

  16. Good. They always should have been. They should also be stripped of all rights and jailed for life tbh.

  17. Sounds good but WHY ISN’T IT ALREADY A THING FUCKING HELL

  18. An alternative is to put protection orders in place that ensure visits are always supervised (this exists now). History might suggest we should be very careful allowing governments to strip people of rights.

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