Protection of Children Act 1978 (c. 37) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that criminalized indecent photographs of children. The act...
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Protection of, Children Act 1889 The Protection of Children Act 1978 The Protection of Children (Tobacco) Act 1986 The Protection of Children Act 1999 The Protection...
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by the Protection of Children Act 1978 ("the 1978 Act"), which made it illegal to take, make, distribute, show, or possess for the intent of showing...
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illegal" under the Protection of Children Act 1978, effectively classifying the website as child pornography. This resulted in much of the UK being prevented...
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(Control) Act 1981 Offences under section 1(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1978 Offences under section 160 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 Offences...
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United Kingdom. Section 45(2) changed the definition of "child" in the Protection of Children Act 1978 (which applies to child pornography) from a person...
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this shot is considered to be in breach of the Protection of Children Act 1978. The 2002 UK DVD required 1:15 of cuts for the baptism scene; a new title...
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R v Bowden (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
Cambridge on 12 counts of making indecent photography of a child contrary to section 1(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978. Before amended by the...
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peer-to-peer network. Venables faced two charges under the Protection of Children Act 1978. On 23 July, Venables appeared at a court hearing at the Old...
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Rolf Harris (category Australian children's entertainers)
pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. The four counts of making indecent images were related to the Protection of Children Act 1978, which interprets viewing...
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The Protection of Children Act 1978 prohibited distribution and possession of indecent images of people under the age of sixteen so the issue of potential...
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Ian Watkins (Lostprophets singer) (category Alumni of the University of Wales, Newport)
and misconduct with children was reported as early as 2008 to South Wales Police, though the authorities repeatedly failed to act upon any leads linking...
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Huw Edwards (category Alumni of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
April 2024. In July, he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children by receiving them during online chats. On 16 September,...
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Linsey Dawn McKenzie (category 1978 births)
Wales was 16, as set by the Protection of Children Act 1978. This minimum age was later raised to 18 by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which went into effect...
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Cyril Townsend (category Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
member of the Select Committee on Violence in the Family, and, concerned about child sex abuse, was the sponsor of the Protection of Children Act 1978, which...
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Jimmy Savile (category English children's television presenters)
Saturday evening television programme which arranged for the wishes of viewers, mainly children, to come true. Savile was known for fundraising and supporting...
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Gary Glitter (category Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected biographies of living people)
arrested after a technician discovered pornographic images of children on the hard drive of a laptop that he had taken to a computer retailer in Bristol...
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during points of the trial. The report stated that Campbell "continued to experience thoughts of killing and having sex with children and having sex...
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which is deemed in breach or potential breach of current interpretation of the Protection of Children Act 1978. Roleplay where one participant plays a child...
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Mary Whitehouse (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
passage of the Protection of Children Act 1978, the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981, which concerned sex shops, and the Video Recordings Act 1984,...
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Jonathan King (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
of the Pops, BBC, 1965. For number three, Melody Maker, 21 August 1965, cited in King, 65 My Life So Far, ch. 9. Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of...
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1998, since the Protection of Children Act 1978 permitted the distribution and possession of indecent images of people over the age of 16; however, the...
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Cyril Smith (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
evidence, Smith's rapid release within hours, and the invocation of the Official Secrets Act to prevent the investigating officers from discussing the matter...
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Telford child sexual exploitation scandal (category British people convicted of child sexual abuse)
victims are seen as victims and we are absolutely dedicated to the protection of children," he told reporters. "There was not the cohesion that there is today...
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died the previous year, had sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life, mostly children but some as old as 75, and mostly female. He had been...
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Cleveland child abuse scandal (category Children's rights in England)
paediatricians involved were criticized. In 1991, the Children Act was implemented, in part as a result of the scandal and the ensuing report. In 1997, a controversial...
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Sexual Offences Act 2003, s 47 The Sexual Offences Act 2003, ss 48 to 50 The Protection of Children Act 1978, s 1; the Criminal Justice Act 1988, s 160 The...
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R v Fellows; R v Arnold (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
on the statutory interpretation of section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1978, and the Obscene Publications Act 1959, the definitions have since...
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and Immigration Act 2008. Imprisonment for public protection was abolished by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, although...
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Child pornography laws in the United States (section 1466A - Obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children)
finding of obscenity. Child pornography first became illegal at the federal level in 1978, with the enactment of the Protection of Children Against Sexual...
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