Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!

3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

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Monday 8 August 2016

No Space Left in British Jails for all Pedophiles – Police Chief

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Pedophiles guilty of lower level offenses should be diverted to mental health treatment programs rather than prisons, a senior police chief has suggested.

Chief Superintendent Gavin Thomas, president of the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales, has called for a different approach to rehabilitating those who have viewed indecent images of children online but have not committed contact offenses.

Citing the rapidly growing sex offenders’ register, Thomas warned that police do not have the resources to properly monitor all of those on the list.

“One of the major concerns from our members is managing the register already, and it’s growing. For offenders at the highest level there are visits to be made [and] monitoring access to the internet,” he told the Times.

“Should we be going down the criminal justice route or, based on a proper assessment, should we be going down the health route? At the moment I am not seeing alternative thinking on how we deal with this issue as it grows and grows and grows,” he said.

There are nearly 45,000 offenders on the register today, up from 32,000 a decade ago.

Child sex allegations have risen by 80 percent in the three years to 2015 according to Simon Bailey, the national police lead for child protection and abuse.

Bailey revealed in March that the cost of investigating child sex abuse hit £1 billion (US$1.3 billion) last year, with the average cost of an investigation priced at £19,000. Bailey expects investigations to hit £3 billion by 2020.

Thomas is not the first official to call for a rethink of the approach to lower level crime, as Bailey also previously suggested alternative treatment options for those offenders who do not pose an “immediate threat.”

“We have to think about an alternative solution. [We] need to engage with service providers from mental health and the health service to work with us to say these people need help,” he told the Guardian in 2014.

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