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Stalker Jailed For Planting Child Porn On a PC

Posted by samzenpus on from the how-do-I-love-thee-let-me-plant-the-ways dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An elaborate scheme to get the husband of a co-worker with whom he was obsessed jailed backfired on Ilkka Karttunen, 48, from Essex in the UK. His plan was to get the husband arrested so that he could have a go at a relationship with the woman. To do this he broke into the couple's home while they were sleeping, used their family computer to download child pornography, and then removed the hard drive and mailed it anonymously to the police, along with a note that identified the owner."

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  1. Not the end of the story... by Manip · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately in the UK they publish names of anyone accused of sex crimes in local newspapers so you can bet even with the husband in this case proved entirely innocent he might need to move house, have his car set alight, stones thrown through his windows, and have his name google-able to child porn charges. Plus the child services and new child protection scheme use just rumours to judge people so if he applied to, for example, because a football coach he might be denied (*you need a licence to talk to a child in the UK).

    One question - Why was the wife or anyone else using the "family PC" not arrested? Or are only males arrested for child porn?

  2. Re:Strict Liability by Low+Ranked+Craig · · Score: 4, Informative

    IANAL either, but these guys are:

    Prosecuting, Brian Stalk, explained to the jury that possession of a firearm was a "strict liability" charge – therefore Mr Clarke's allegedly honest intent was irrelevant.

    Just by having the gun in his possession he was guilty of the charge, and has no defence in law against it, he added.

    Judge Christopher Critchlow said: "This is an unusual case, but in law there is no dispute that Mr Clarke has no defence to this charge.

    emphasis mine

    My understanding that possession of child porn is basically the same as possession of a shotgun - For the most part you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent, and there are very few, if any, defenses.

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  3. Re:Moral of the story. . . by random+coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Citation here:

    METRO NEWS BRIEFS: CONNECTICUT; Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores

  4. Re:Moral of the story. . . by fredklein · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google 'new london police IQ Jordan'.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/19/weekinreview/ideas-trends-help-wanted-invoking-the-not-too-high-iq-test.html?pagewanted=1
    " In 1996 Mr. Jordan scored 33 out of 50 on the exam, ... He says he was curtly informed that he did not ''fit the profile,'' which litigation revealed was a score of 20 to 27.

    ''Bob Jordan is exactly the type of guy we would want to screen out,'' said William C. Gavitt, the deputy police chief"