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| photographs. O'Carroll's Irish nationality is noted in the Irish Times of 12 Dec 2006: Irish | photographs. O'Carroll's Irish nationality is noted in the Irish Times of 12 Dec 2006: Irish | ||
| paedophile faces sentencing in UK</ref> activist for ] advocacy, and a convicted distributor of ].<ref name=beebgaol/><ref name="bn-paedo"/> O'Carroll is a former chairperson of the now disbanded ] (PIE) and was at one time a prominent member of IPCE, formerly known as International Paedophile and Child Emancipation. | paedophile faces sentencing in UK</ref> activist for ] advocacy, and a convicted distributor of ].<ref name=beebgaol/><ref name="bn-paedo"/> O'Carroll is a former chairperson of the now disbanded ] (PIE) and was at one time a prominent member of IPCE, formerly known as International Paedophile and Child Emancipation. | ||
| O'Carroll was working as a press officer for the ] in the 1970s when he was told of PIE's existence after "coming out" as a paedophile to lesbian members of the OU Women's Group. At that time he was editor of the OU staff newspaper ''Open House'' and had been covering a Women's Group meeting on homosexuality.<ref>''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'', paperback edition page 208</ref> His subsequent activism with PIE reportedly cost him his job there.<ref>For example, the ''Sunday Mirror'' ran an editorial in August 1977 calling for his dismissal. The newspaper is quoted in ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'', paperback edition page 226.</ref> | |||
| ==Criminal history== | |||
| In 1981 O'Carroll was convicted for "conspiracy to corrupt public morals" over the contact ads section of the PIE magazine and was imprisoned. Dan Franklin, who had edited ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'', wrote an afterword for the book’s American edition about O’Carroll’s two ] trials (the second followed a hung jury in the first) and imprisonment.<ref>Franklin D., Afterword, in ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'', Boston, Mass: Alyson Publications, 1982, pp. 252–256</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | In 1980 O'Carroll's book '']'' was published, in which he advocates the normalisation of some adult-child sexual relationships. In the book, O'Carroll states his belief that each stage of the sexual relationship between an adult and child can be 'negotiated', with "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".<ref>Tom O'Carroll, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'', Peter Owen Ltd, London, 1980 (hardback); Alyson Publications, Boston, Mass., 1982 (paperback). ISBN 0-7206-0546-6</ref> The book gained mainstream reviews which were either scathingly dismissive<ref>Mary-Kay Wilmers "'Young Love", ''London Review of Books'', 2:23 · 4 December 1980, pp. 9–10 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v02/n23/mary-kay-wilmers/young-love</ref><ref>Charles Rycroft "Sensuality from the start", ''Times Literary Supplement'', 21 November 1980</ref><ref>John Rae "Suffer little children", ''Times Educational Supplement'', 17 October 1980</ref> or sympathetic.<ref>Maurice Yaffé "'Age of Consent", ''New Statesman'', 7 November 1980, p.31</ref><ref>Eric Taylor "Too young to love?", ''New Society'', 30 October 1980, p.246</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | In 2002 O'Carroll was found guilty of evading a prohibition on the importation of ] from ]. He was given a nine-month sentence on the basis of three images, a sentence later quashed by the Court of Appeal which held that the trial judge had been overly influenced by O'Carroll's campaigning. The photos were described in the ruling as having "the quality of indecency in the context in which they were taken, but were of the kind that parents might take of their children entirely innocently".<ref>"Paedophile campaigner walks free", BBC online, 26 November 2002 | ||
| ⚫ | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2516383.stm (accessed 25 June 2009)</ref> | ||
| In 1981 O'Carroll was convicted for "conspiracy to corrupt public morals" over the contact ads section of the PIE magazine and was imprisoned. A barrister in the case, ], later a QC and senior circuit judge, wrote about it the following year in ''Rights'', the newsletter of the ] (later Liberty). Thornton was critical of the charges, which he said had been "too remote from any tangible misdemeanour" and he suggested that O'Carroll had been convicted on little evidence.<ref>Peter Thornton "Unacceptable charges exposed in recent trials", ''Rights'', 6:2, 1982</ref> Also, Dan Franklin, who had edited ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'', wrote an afterword for the book’s American edition about O’Carroll’s two ] trials (the second followed a hung jury in the first) and imprisonment. Franklin said the authorities had "shown themselves determined to punish this intelligent, articulate man to the limits of their power".<ref>Franklin D., Afterword, in ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'', Boston, Mass: Alyson Publications, 1982, pp. 252–256</ref> Franklin cited commentators of the time, including ] in ''The Observer'', who declared that O'Carroll had been penalised effectively for nothing more than campaigning to change the law.<ref>Alan Watkins, "Conspiracy, morals and lynch law", ''The Observer'', 22 March 1981</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | In 2002 O'Carroll was briefly found guilty of evading a prohibition on the importation of ] from ]. He was given a nine-month sentence on the basis of three images, a sentence later quashed by the Court of Appeal which held that the trial judge had been overly influenced by O'Carroll's campaigning. The photos were described in the ruling as having "the quality of indecency in the context in which they were taken, but were of the kind that parents might take of their children entirely innocently".<ref>"Paedophile campaigner walks free", BBC online, 26 November 2002 | ||
| ⚫ | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2516383.stm (accessed 25 June 2009)</ref> At the time, O'Carroll was working on a book about the musician ]. | ||
| In 2003 he was a panellist in the TV discussion programme '']'', chaired by Baroness ] QC. Another participant ] proposed on the basis of his views that O'Carroll should be committed to a mental hospital.{{fact|date=December 2012}} | |||
| O'Carroll was convicted in 2006 of conspiring to distribute indecent photographs of children after supplying an undercover ] police officer 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></ref><ref>, ''The Sun'', Mike Sullivan, 25 January 2006</ref><ref>"Paedophile activists guilty of possessing child porn", theratbook.com, 20 December 2006 | O'Carroll was convicted in 2006 of conspiring to distribute indecent photographs of children after supplying an undercover ] police officer 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></ref><ref>, ''The Sun'', Mike Sullivan, 25 January 2006</ref><ref>"Paedophile activists guilty of possessing child porn", theratbook.com, 20 December 2006 | ||
| http://www.theratbook.com/Articles/Article/paedophile_activists_guilty_of_possessing_child_porn (accessed 4 June 2010)</ref> He was arraigned 1 June 2006 on child porn charges.<ref name="bbc21"> September 2006, ].</ref><ref>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" /> On 20 December 2006, he was jailed for 2½ years at London's ].<ref name=beebgaol></ref><ref name="bn-paedo"> – breakingnews.ie</ref> | http://www.theratbook.com/Articles/Article/paedophile_activists_guilty_of_possessing_child_porn (accessed 4 June 2010)</ref> He was arraigned 1 June 2006 on child porn charges.<ref name="bbc21"> September 2006, ].</ref><ref>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" /> On 20 December 2006, he was jailed for 2½ years at London's ].<ref name=beebgaol></ref><ref name="bn-paedo"> – breakingnews.ie</ref> | ||
| ==Activism== | |||
| His activism with PIE cost him his job as a press officer at the ] after the ] published a piece on his membership of the group.<ref>For example, the ''Sunday Mirror'' ran an editorial in August 1977 calling for his dismissal from the Open University</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | After a gestation of many years, O'Carroll's book on singer ] was published in 2010 under the pen name "Carl Toms".<ref>The identity of Carl Toms and Tom O'Carroll is confirmed in Michael Bailey's review of the book: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/articles/MJOCarrollReview.pdf</ref> '']'', a 624-page work, essayed a comprehensive review of the late entertainer's controversially intimate relationships with young boys. Published in the UK by Troubador Publishing Ltd,<ref>http://www.troubador.co.uk/image/news/Spring10.pdf</ref> the book received pre-publication endorsements from five professors: D. J. West, emeritus professor of clinical criminology, University of Cambridge;<ref name="dangerousbooks.co.uk">http://www.dangerousbooks.co.uk/index.html</ref> Richard Green, emeritus professor of psychiatry, UCLA;<ref name="ReferenceA">http://www.dangerousbooks.co.uk/details.html</ref> William Armstrong Percy III, professor of history, University of Massachusetts;<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Thomas K. Hubbard, professor of classics, University of Texas;<ref name="dangerousbooks.co.uk"/> and James R. Kincaid, professor of English, University of Southern California.<ref name="dangerousbooks.co.uk"/> | ||
| ⚫ | In 1980 O'Carroll's book '']'' was published, in which he advocates the normalisation of some adult- |
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| ⚫ | After publication, J. Michael Bailey, professor of psychology at Northwestern University, also gave high praise in a four-page review for the academic journal ''Archives of Sexual Behavior''. Describing the author as “an unapologetic pedophile”, Prof. Bailey nevertheless advised potential readers to set aside any scepticism to which that might give rise. “The book,” he wrote, “is fascinating, challenging and discomfiting. Anyone wanting to understand Michael Jackson will need to read it.” Bailey noted that the book takes “a pro-pedophilic stance” and argues “persuasively” that Jackson was “almost certainly pedophilic”. Bailey, a family man,<ref>http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/personal.html</ref> wrote, “The idea that pedophilic relationships can be harmless or even beneficial to children is disturbing to many people, including me.” But, he continued, “The lack of scientific evidence supporting my largely visceral reactions against pedophilic relationships has been one of the most surprising discoveries of my hopefully ongoing scientific education...O’Carroll argues against my intuitions and he argues well.” <ref>http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/articles/MJOCarrollReview.pdf</ref> | ||
| In March 2003 he made an ] on the ] discussion programme '']'', alongside ], ] and others.<ref></ref> | |||
| ⚫ | In 2010 O’Carroll’s writing was affected following complaints to Amazon about a book by another author, Phillip R. Greaves, which encouraged sexual contacts between adults and children. After a campaign by outraged Amazon readers, Amazon dropped the book, along with several other books that appeared to promote paedophilia, including O’Carroll’s earlier book, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case''.<ref>http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/articles/MJOCarrollReview.pdf, p. 3</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | O'Carroll's book on singer ] was published in 2010 under the pen name "Carl Toms".<ref>The identity of Carl Toms and Tom O'Carroll is confirmed in Michael Bailey's review of the book: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/articles/MJOCarrollReview.pdf</ref> '']'', a 624-page work, essayed a comprehensive review of the late entertainer's controversially intimate relationships with young boys. Published in the UK by Troubador Publishing Ltd,<ref>http://www.troubador.co.uk/image/news/Spring10.pdf</ref> the book received pre-publication endorsements from five professors: D. J. West, emeritus professor of clinical criminology, University of Cambridge;<ref name="dangerousbooks.co.uk">http://www.dangerousbooks.co.uk/index.html</ref> Richard Green, emeritus professor of psychiatry, UCLA;<ref name="ReferenceA">http://www.dangerousbooks.co.uk/details.html</ref> William Armstrong Percy III, professor of history, University of Massachusetts;<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Thomas K. Hubbard, professor of classics, University of Texas;<ref name="dangerousbooks.co.uk"/> and James R. Kincaid, professor of English, University of Southern California.<ref name="dangerousbooks.co.uk"/> | ||
| O'Carroll presents what he calls "a discourse of resistance" at his blog Heretic TOC. | |||
| ⚫ | After publication, J. Michael Bailey, |
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| ⚫ | In 2010 following complaints to Amazon about a book by another author, Phillip R. Greaves, which encouraged sexual contacts between adults and children |
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| ==References== | ==References== | ||
| <references/> | <references/> | ||
| ==External links== | |||
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Revision as of 17:33, 15 November 2013
Thomas Victor O'Carroll (born 1945) is an Irish writer (with dual Irish/British nationality), activist for pedophilia advocacy, and a convicted distributor of child pornography. O'Carroll is a former chairperson of the now disbanded Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and was at one time a prominent member of IPCE, formerly known as International Paedophile and Child Emancipation.
O'Carroll was working as a press officer for the Open University in the 1970s when he was told of PIE's existence after "coming out" as a paedophile to lesbian members of the OU Women's Group. At that time he was editor of the OU staff newspaper Open House and had been covering a Women's Group meeting on homosexuality. His subsequent activism with PIE reportedly cost him his job there.
In 1980 O'Carroll's book Paedophilia: The Radical Case was published, in which he advocates the normalisation of some adult-child sexual relationships. In the book, O'Carroll states his belief that each stage of the sexual relationship between an adult and child can be 'negotiated', with "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". The book gained mainstream reviews which were either scathingly dismissive or sympathetic.
In 1981 O'Carroll was convicted for "conspiracy to corrupt public morals" over the contact ads section of the PIE magazine and was imprisoned. A barrister in the case, Peter Thornton, later a QC and senior circuit judge, wrote about it the following year in Rights, the newsletter of the National Council for Civil Liberties (later Liberty). Thornton was critical of the charges, which he said had been "too remote from any tangible misdemeanour" and he suggested that O'Carroll had been convicted on little evidence. Also, Dan Franklin, who had edited Paedophilia: The Radical Case, wrote an afterword for the book’s American edition about O’Carroll’s two Old Bailey trials (the second followed a hung jury in the first) and imprisonment. Franklin said the authorities had "shown themselves determined to punish this intelligent, articulate man to the limits of their power". Franklin cited commentators of the time, including Alan Watkins in The Observer, who declared that O'Carroll had been penalised effectively for nothing more than campaigning to change the law.
In 2002 O'Carroll was briefly found guilty of evading a prohibition on the importation of indecent photographs of children from Qatar. He was given a nine-month sentence on the basis of three images, a sentence later quashed by the Court of Appeal which held that the trial judge had been overly influenced by O'Carroll's campaigning. The photos were described in the ruling as having "the quality of indecency in the context in which they were taken, but were of the kind that parents might take of their children entirely innocently". At the time, O'Carroll was working on a book about the musician Michael Jackson.
In 2003 he was a panellist in the TV discussion programme After Dark, chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. Another participant Esther Rantzen proposed on the basis of his views that O'Carroll should be committed to a mental hospital.
O'Carroll was convicted in 2006 of conspiring to distribute indecent photographs of children after supplying an undercover Met police officer with a cache of child pornography obtained from his co-defendant, Michael John De Clare Studdert's vault of 50,000 pornographic images. He was arraigned 1 June 2006 on child porn charges. In September 2006, he admitted to two counts of distributing indecent images of children. On 20 December 2006, he was jailed for 2½ years at London's Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court.
After a gestation of many years, O'Carroll's book on singer Michael Jackson was published in 2010 under the pen name "Carl Toms". Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons, a 624-page work, essayed a comprehensive review of the late entertainer's controversially intimate relationships with young boys. Published in the UK by Troubador Publishing Ltd, the book received pre-publication endorsements from five professors: D. J. West, emeritus professor of clinical criminology, University of Cambridge; Richard Green, emeritus professor of psychiatry, UCLA; William Armstrong Percy III, professor of history, University of Massachusetts; Thomas K. Hubbard, professor of classics, University of Texas; and James R. Kincaid, professor of English, University of Southern California.
After publication, J. Michael Bailey, professor of psychology at Northwestern University, also gave high praise in a four-page review for the academic journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. Describing the author as “an unapologetic pedophile”, Prof. Bailey nevertheless advised potential readers to set aside any scepticism to which that might give rise. “The book,” he wrote, “is fascinating, challenging and discomfiting. Anyone wanting to understand Michael Jackson will need to read it.” Bailey noted that the book takes “a pro-pedophilic stance” and argues “persuasively” that Jackson was “almost certainly pedophilic”. Bailey, a family man, wrote, “The idea that pedophilic relationships can be harmless or even beneficial to children is disturbing to many people, including me.” But, he continued, “The lack of scientific evidence supporting my largely visceral reactions against pedophilic relationships has been one of the most surprising discoveries of my hopefully ongoing scientific education...O’Carroll argues against my intuitions and he argues well.”
In 2010 O’Carroll’s writing was affected following complaints to Amazon about a book by another author, Phillip R. Greaves, which encouraged sexual contacts between adults and children. After a campaign by outraged Amazon readers, Amazon dropped the book, along with several other books that appeared to promote paedophilia, including O’Carroll’s earlier book, Paedophilia: The Radical Case.
O'Carroll presents what he calls "a discourse of resistance" at his blog Heretic TOC.
References
- D.o.b. and British nationality confirmed in the publicly accessible abstract of a pay-to-view legal page on O'Carroll v United Kingdom in the European Court of Human Rights: http://vlex.com/vid/carroll-v-the-united-kingdom-26781379 (accessed 25 June 2009). This page also discloses that the ECHR case was in connection with his conviction for importing indecent photographs. O'Carroll's Irish nationality is noted in the Irish Times of 12 Dec 2006: Irish paedophile faces sentencing in UK
- ^ BBC NEWS | UK | England | Coventry/Warwickshire | Two jailed for child porn library
- ^ Paedophile rights campaigner jailed for child porn distribution – breakingnews.ie
- Paedophilia: The Radical Case, paperback edition page 208
- For example, the Sunday Mirror ran an editorial in August 1977 calling for his dismissal. The newspaper is quoted in Paedophilia: The Radical Case, paperback edition page 226.
- Tom O'Carroll, Paedophilia: The Radical Case, Peter Owen Ltd, London, 1980 (hardback); Alyson Publications, Boston, Mass., 1982 (paperback). ISBN 0-7206-0546-6
- Mary-Kay Wilmers "'Young Love", London Review of Books, 2:23 · 4 December 1980, pp. 9–10 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v02/n23/mary-kay-wilmers/young-love
- Charles Rycroft "Sensuality from the start", Times Literary Supplement, 21 November 1980
- John Rae "Suffer little children", Times Educational Supplement, 17 October 1980
- Maurice Yaffé "'Age of Consent", New Statesman, 7 November 1980, p.31
- Eric Taylor "Too young to love?", New Society, 30 October 1980, p.246
- Peter Thornton "Unacceptable charges exposed in recent trials", Rights, 6:2, 1982
- Franklin D., Afterword, in Paedophilia: The Radical Case, Boston, Mass: Alyson Publications, 1982, pp. 252–256
- Alan Watkins, "Conspiracy, morals and lynch law", The Observer, 22 March 1981
- "Paedophile campaigner walks free", BBC online, 26 November 2002 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2516383.stm (accessed 25 June 2009)
- Men jailed for making and distributing indecent images of children – Metropolitan Police Service
- "Paedos' champ arrested", The Sun, Mike Sullivan, 25 January 2006
- "Paedophile activists guilty of possessing child porn", theratbook.com, 20 December 2006 http://www.theratbook.com/Articles/Article/paedophile_activists_guilty_of_possessing_child_porn (accessed 4 June 2010)
- ^ "Pair admit to child porn charges," September 2006, BBC News.
- Olivia Richwald "Police charge man over child sex ring", The Northern Echo, 1 June 2006
- The identity of Carl Toms and Tom O'Carroll is confirmed in Michael Bailey's review of the book: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/articles/MJOCarrollReview.pdf
- http://www.troubador.co.uk/image/news/Spring10.pdf
- ^ http://www.dangerousbooks.co.uk/index.html
- ^ http://www.dangerousbooks.co.uk/details.html
- http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/personal.html
- http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/articles/MJOCarrollReview.pdf
- http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/articles/MJOCarrollReview.pdf, p. 3
External links
O'Carroll's weblog at WordPress
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