The head of a primary school who discussed sexually abusing a child with a mother he met on a fetish website has been banned from teaching for life.
Gosh! I wonder what the school safeguarding team thought about this?
Paul Brown, the safeguarding lead at Bransgore Church of England school in Christchurch, Hampshire, left in April 2024 due to 'personal reasons'.
Oh....
But it has now emerged that he was arrested in July 2023 as a suspected paedophile - although he was not charged.
Why not? Another CPS lazy day, I guess. Or the police failed to secure enough evidence to charge him.
Brown used a bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM) website Fetlife between June and July 2023, sometimes during school hours.
Gotta have a little something to while away the long boring hours, I guess...
After police arrested him, Brown claimed he thought it was 'all fantasy' and that Person A's children did not exist.
As likely an excuse as 'the dog ate my homework'...
Despite the accusations against him, the misconduct panel heard character witness statements. One person wrote to the panel: 'I agree that he acted unwisely and without rational perspective but I don't believe he has ever, or would ever, harm another human being, including a child.' Another wrote: 'I believe that Paul is safe to work with children,' adding that 'Paul has spent his life helping children' and is a 'good man who has had his life's work taken away by this very sad affair'.
Luckily, the panel didn't go along with this. And he showed his utter contempt for the system by his behavior at the hearing.
The conduct panel heard how, despite the nature of the conversation Brown had with Person A, he did not report the profile to the website or contact the police despite being aware that children were at 'risk of sexual abuse'. Brown did not attend the hearing. In a letter and a statement to the panel dated October 2025 he admitted to 'large parts of the allegations facing him'.
It should come as no surprise that these people seek to put themselves in these positions of access to prey but when caught, they really should face more consequences than this.
This is one area where I am torn. So stake in the ground. Child Abusers should be imprisoned and then physically castrated before they are released.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I am reading more and more about people talking about it or making pictures on computers where no children are harmed and they get treated the same as abusers. Therefore making the risk the same. It seems to me that it increases the risk of child abuse rather than reducing them.
Plus we are all a bunch of hypocrites. I'm old enough to remember when we all lusted after Charlotte Church, the Olsen Twins and other teens when they were under age. That was talked about all over the place at the time and nobody cared as it was just talk but nowadays we are a bunch of limp wristed sanctimonious pearl clutchers and it is treated the same as actual abuse.
This belittles actual abuse by treating them the same as actual abuse and cuts off an avenue for these perverts to live their fantasies without any abuse of children. A bit like we have racing games like GTA on computers and go karting which enables people to get their thrills without racing down the A1.
Nature has made it so we like them young. Look at Leonardo DiCaprio. The jokes about his girlfriends and we all laugh but it is really difficult to tell the ages of anyone just by looks alone and if they are particularly bright and articulate it is next to impossible as we have seen in the past when people are arrested because she lied about her age to get screwed by a celebrity.
This whole area needs looking at afresh and fixed. We can start by sorting out this Epstein debacle which isn't someone just talking about it and has led to deaths and long term abuse.
Your first sentence is enough. The rest merely invites those who don't wish to do anything about it, to do nothing; worse, to felicitate themselves on their goodness; and encourages the perpetrators to continue.
DeleteAgreed, the definitions really have changed and not for the better.
DeleteWell said Lord T. It takes some balls to state the obvious when emotions have taken over the debating space.
ReplyDeleteLegislation by emotion is the worst.
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