The Cook Report - Child Pornography S01E02 (1987)

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Published on Aug 17, 2024
This was a difficult programme to make, because the subject matter could not be shown. But by all accounts, it was a growing problem the Cook Report team decided to ask why it was not an offence to possess this unspeakable material, only to sell it. Paedophiles simply used to swap it instead. This edition also exposed the international scale of the problem and brought about the closure of the biggest exporter of child pornography in Holland – then the centre of the business. Cook had been assaulted by the proprietor and then rescued by performers at an adjacent live sex show. They said that consenting adults giving sex performances was fine, but that child pornography was completely unacceptable. The Dutch Police subsequently closed the child pornographers down.

Back in Britain, Cook interviewed a paedophile recently released from prison who had videoed himself sexually abusing numerous little girls and had then sold the disgusting results. Unrepentant, he admitted prowling amusement arcades along the south coast looking for further victims. But until he was caught offending again, he was free to do as he wished – and, shockingly, that included a long-held desire to make a so-called ‘snuff movie’ in which the abuse victim was murdered on camera.

Then the programme revealed that international co-operation in this field simply didn’t work. A huge file of paedophiles operating in the US and the UK, for example, had not been passed to the specialist Metropolitan Police department responsible. The Cook Report acquired a copy of that file and handed it on. Many arrests were made and finally the Government made possession an offence. In a subsequent programme, a successful campaign was mounted to have the law updated again to cover child pornography downloaded from a computer. As the law then stood, a series of binary numbers on a computer did not count in law as a pictorial image.
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