CONSIDER, if you can bear it, the number of children worldwide who have been abused on behalf of Jean-David Marshall and others like him.
Marshall has been jailed for just one year for being in possession of 47,000 indecent images of children, some as young as five.
Some images were of the worst classification.
This man will be free in six months.
The sentence was inadequate – as are the national sentencing guidelines.
We will never make inroads into the heartbreaking global industry of abuse until politicians and the criminal justice system take punishment seriously.
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