Tom O'Carroll 2099086 215463762 2008-05-28T09:21:05Z John Nevard 5585333 '''Thomas Victor O'Carroll'''<ref name=themet/> (born c. 1945<ref name="bbc21">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/5367968.stm "Pair admit to child porn charges,"] September 2006, [[BBC News]].</ref>) is an Irish [[writer]] and controversial activist for [[pedophilia]] and [[pedophilia advocacy]], being a founding member of both the now defunct [[Paedophile Information Exchange]] (PIE) and [[IPCE]], formerly known as the International Paedophile Child Emancipation Group.<ref>[http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2006/1215/breaking54.htm Irish paedophile faces sentencing in UK]</ref> Born in [[County Carlow]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]<ref name="bn-paedo">[http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/?jp=CWSNAUKFCWKF Paedophile rights campaigner jailed for child porn distribution] - breakingnews.ie</ref>, O'Carroll gained notoriety in [[1980]] when he published ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'', a book that pushed for the normalization of some adult-child sexual relationships. In the book, O'Carroll argues that each stage of the sexual relationship between an adult and child can be 'negotiated' <blockquote> by hints and signals, verbal and non-verbal, by which each indicates to the other what is acceptable and what is not... the man might start by saying what pretty knickers the girl was wearing, and he would be far more likely to proceed to the next stage of negotiation if she seemed pleased by the remark than if she coloured up and closed her legs.<ref>O'Carroll, T., 1980: Paedophilia: The radical case. (p. 49) As quoted in O'Connell Davidson, J., 2005, Children in the Global Sex Trade. (p. 91)</ref> </blockquote> In [[1981]] he was convicted for "conspiracy to corrupt public morals" over the contact ads section of the PIE magazine and was imprisoned, and once again in [[2002]] on charges of evading a prohibition on the importation of [[indecent photograph of a child|indecent photographs of children]] stemming from nude photographs that O'Carroll had taken of children on the beaches of [[Qatar]]. At the time, he was working on a book about the musician and philanthropist [[Michael Jackson]] who was later acquitted of charges brought against him regarding indecent behaviour towards a child. Later, O'Carroll was arrested once more on suspicion of conspiring to distribute indecent photographs of children after supplying an undercover [[Metropolitan Police Service|Met]] police officer who infiltrated the pedophile advocacy groups with a cache of child pornography obtained from his co defendant, Michael John De Clare Studdert's vault of 50,000 pornographic images.<ref name=themet>http://cms.met.police.uk/news/convictions/paedophile/men_jailed_for_making_and_distributing_indecent_images_of_children</ref><ref>[http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006040086,00.html "Paedos' champ arrested"], ''The Sun'', Mike Sullivan, ''date unknown''</ref> He was arraigned [[1 June]] [[2006]] on child porn charges.<ref name="bbc21" /><ref>[http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.779431.0.police_charge_man_over_child_sex_ring.php "Police charge man over child sex ring"], by Olivia Richwald, ''[[The Northern Echo]]'', [[1 June]] [[2006]]</ref> In September 2006, he admitted to two counts of distributing indecent images of children.<ref name="bbc21" /> In [[December 20]] [[2006]], he was jailed for 2½ years at London’s [[Middlesex Crown Court]]<ref name=beebgaol>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/6196811.stm</ref><ref name="bn-paedo"/>. ==References== <references/> ==External links== *[http://www.inquisition21.com/article~view~69~page_num~11.html "Reflections on Thomas O'Carroll"] *[http://www.ipce.info/host/radicase/preface.htm ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case''] {{DEFAULTSORT:Ocarroll, Tom}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Pedophile activism]] <code></code>