Child pornography - Sentences must fit the crime

THE inadequacy of sentences handed down by the courts in child pornography cases is a cause for alarm given the nature of this most heinous of crimes.

As the nation learned from a series of horrific reports, failure to crack down on perverts, whether they are priests, brothers, nuns, family members, friends or associates, simply opens the way for them to go on with their depraved activities.

The gravity of this scenario, and the vulnerability of victims, ought to be sufficient to convince the judiciary that the full weight of the law must be brought down on those, especially the creators and addicts of child pornography, who prey on innocent children.