[Oriental lily]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/man-watc...0129-2dif9.html


Almost identical to the Andrew muirhead defense.
How sickening that they are getting theses psychologists to support the defense.

Who knew that watching children being emotionally, psychologically and physically raped could work just as good as popping a couple of Valium .
All this great stress relief that these people are getting yet are not paedophiles.
And are getting no sexual gratification from it.


What a croc!


I really wonder how some defense lawyers look at themselves in the mirror every morning.
They must be so proud.

[erindiv]

GAHHHH. My brain hurts.

[JuniorSpies]

He was bored and had marital problems? That's why they invented golf, not child porn. Dickbag.

[FrogIsAFrogIsAFr...]

That's a pretty standard paedophile response to explain their compulsions (stress reduction). I think the contributing factors aren't always used to mitigate the severity, though - I hope the sentencing reflects that.

[BetteBoop]

I really wonder how some defense lawyers look at themselves in the mirror every morning.
They must be so proud.

I agree with this. I accept that everyone is entitled to a decent defence, but I always took a decent defence to mean thorough legal advice.

A decent defence seems to mean make sh*t up, no matter how stupid it sounds, to try get yourself out of trouble. I don't see that as defence, just lying.

He had 45 000 images with 20% of the involving horrific abuse. How does looking at children being horrifically abused relieve stress?

[CallMeProtart]

Hope that claim was treated with the disdain it deserves.

Finding looking at child porn de-stressing as opposed to stressful should be made a crime in itself!

[erindiv]

Would love to see someone using that excuse in court for murder.

"So tell me, why did you kill this man?"

"*shrug* I was bored."

[Saecularis Angel...]

A decent defence seems to mean make sh*t up, no matter how stupid it sounds, to try get yourself out of trouble. I don't see that as defence, just lying.

He had 45 000 images with 20% of the involving horrific abuse. How does looking at children being horrifically abused relieve stress?

I don't necessarily think it is an invented excuse. I've done a fair bit of reading on child sexual abuse, and it seems that for some offenders, it's not unrelated to the impulse to self harm. It's that kind of dysfunctional response to stress, something about shifting the pain, I don't really get it either.

Doesn't make it right. Doesn't make it any less messed up. But it really does seem that it's something that happens in some minds.

[hayleymumof3]

What a ****ing cop out.

I wonder if he is still looking at child porn now because he is stressed out from being arrested, spending time in prison, the trial. I imagine that this is WAY more stressful than having problems with his wife how is he coping with the stress.

[Oriental lily]

Ang vert I could almost swallow the psychology behind that it IF his collection showed other images of footage of abuse and torment.

Their is other hideous stuff on the Internet that you could use to divert pain other than child abuse.

There is snuff films.
Animal abuse.
People being tortured.
Horrific images of war.

Ect ect.

The thing also is that the majority of his collection was made up of the 'milder' types child pornography. So the 'projection' or 'diversion' of pain could not been achieved due to the child not having a high level of suffering.

Also he was having maritital problems. Nothing that probably the majority goes through at sometime in their life.

I think 99.9 percent of people collect, view and keep child pornography for one reason.
Because they are paedophiles and it sexually arouses them.

Yet in the last two big reported cases of this they have had the same defense.
Stress and curiosity.
Not sexual arousel and not due to them being paedophiles and being sexually attracted to children.

It's bull and its obviously the choice route by defense lawyers trying to get softer sentences and drawing sympathy.