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'We can't prove sex with children does them harm' says Labour-linked NCCL;
Daily Expess News UK
Evidence has emerged that the views of the Paedophile Information Exchange influenced policy-making at the National Council for Civil Liberties when it was run by former Labour Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. Hewitt described the NCCL as 'naive and wrong'.
PIE members were lobbying NCCL officials for the age of consent to be reduced and campaigning for “paedophile love”.
Their view that children were not harmed by having sex with adults appears to have been adopted by those at the top of the civil liberties group. ...
“Childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in, with an adult result in no identifiable damage. ...
“The real need is a change in the attitude which assumes that all cases of paedophilia result in lasting damage. ...
As the NCCL archives demonstrate, I consistently distinguished between consenting relationships between homosexual men, on the one hand, and the abuse of children on the other."
Evidence has emerged that the views of the Paedophile Information Exchange influenced policy-making at the National Council for Civil Liberties when it was run by former Labour Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. Hewitt described the NCCL as 'naive and wrong'.
PIE members were lobbying NCCL officials for the age of consent to be reduced and campaigning for “paedophile love”.
Their view that children were not harmed by having sex with adults appears to have been adopted by those at the top of the civil liberties group. ...
“Childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in, with an adult result in no identifiable damage. ...
“The real need is a change in the attitude which assumes that all cases of paedophilia result in lasting damage. ...
As the NCCL archives demonstrate, I consistently distinguished between consenting relationships between homosexual men, on the one hand, and the abuse of children on the other."