List of CSA/anti-pedophile proponents

This article aims to list any person who has spread misinformation about pedophiles or promoted the ideology of child sexual abuse in public, but does not yet have a devoted article on this website. It is intended to be a searchable resource and a repository for information on public persons, their activities, associations and colleagues, who may need to be researched more thoroughly. For articles already created, see Category:People: Unsympathetic Activists, Category:People: Ranting AntiPeds, Category:People: Vigilantes, Category:People: Pseudoscientists.

Celebrities & Media

UK

Chris Ryan, Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, Dale Winton, Daniella Westbrook, Bruce Jones, "Big" Ron Atkinson, Tricia Penrose, Barry Cryer, Dickie Bird, Sharon Henderson and the late Bernard Manning all support Sarah's Law, writing emotion-laden endorsements for the News of the World.

Gabby Logan - TV presenter. Has done the introduction to the "Child-Safe in Sport" video, which was filmed at Wembley Stadium, England. Child-Safe ambassador. Sarah's Law supporter, "I think Sarah's Law is a great idea because anyone who commits this kind of crime against children has forsaken their right to civil liberties and freedom. A parents right to protect their child is imperative."

Susan Osman - BBC News Presenter. Child-Safe endorsement/ambassador.

Nick Ross - TV presenter, Child-Safe ambassador/works for, generally crime-obsessed.

Mark Scott - (www.myspace.com/markscottone) Musician who used the death of Sarah Payne to advance his career, campaigning for Sarah's Law and using the fully supportive Murdoch media to achieve this aim. Has thusfar failed, probably because he is an extremely bad musician.

Rebekah Wade - Editor of The Sun, frequently run "paedo" witch-hunt stories for The News of the World.

US

Jane Seymour - hosted the special "Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse" on the CBS Television Network, Childhelp USA, UNICEF, Child-Safe ambassador.

Nancy Grace - Court TV presenter, opinion journalist and McCarthyite hysteric who sides with the prosecution almost by default. Unprincipled opportunist.

Oprah Winfrey - Veteran TV talk-show host. Long time friend-of-the-establishment on child abuse issues, speaks from "experience" as to be unchallengeable. Famously went on air to state that "over 9000 [organised, pedophile] penises" are out to rape "our children".

Chris Hansen - Host of Dateline NBC's To Catch A Predator, cult icon, makes money out of traumatising and incriminating entrapment victims.

John Walsh - Presenter of America's Most Wanted, NCMEC key founder. Made money out of son Adam's death. Frequent talking head and supporter of parent-power child abuse programs.

Dr Laura - Family-values talk radio host who communicated with The Leadership Council during the Rind et al affair, pushing for congressional condemnation.

Kurt Eichenwald - Journalist who possibly paid Justin Berry to extract testimony, wrote "expose" of online community of childlovers.

Charity/NGO/Self-appointed/Professional

US

Nikki Craft - Political activist/feminist who attacks the nudist movement.

Andrew Vachss - Lawyer/crime author/protection advocate/friend of the establishment.

Danielle Grijalva - Director of the Committee for Safety of Foreign Exchange Students (www.csfes.org, USA), advised on US Department of State regulations in this area. Child-Safe ambassador.

Wendell Kreuth - Predator Hunter vigilante.

Anita Bryant - Traditionalist of Save our Children fame. Believes that homosexuals "recruit" children and then molest them.

UK

Michele Elliot - Kidscape figurehead, regularly appears on TV to incite hysteria and holds particularly backward views on parenting.

Esther Rantzen - Prolific TV hostess who founded Childline, NSPCC links, now admits her role in drumming up paranoia.

Sara Payne - Mother of the murdered girl, Sarah. Has ridden the wave of publicity surrounding her daughter's death, helped found Phoenix Survivors, appointed MBE and Gov. "Victim's Champion".

Ray Wyre - Now dead child protection consultant.

Tracy Edwards MBE - Semi-celebrity and CEOP worker.

NL

Ireen van Engelen - Dutch anti-pedo who investigated Ipce.

Aus

Hetty Johnston - White balloon day and Bravehearts founder, opportunist, unbounded hysteric/media advocate.

Legal

UK

Sir Ronald Waterhouse - Former judge who headed Britain's biggest ever inquiry into child abuse. Sarah's Law supporter, spreads (probably knowingly) misinformation about recidivism.

Police

UK

Jim Gamble - Currently heads CEOP. One of the most unwaveringly authoritarian of talking heads on this issue.

Lord Stevens - former Met Police Chief, Sarah's Law supporter.

Bob McLachlan - Former Head of Scotland Yard's Paedophile Squad, Sarah's Law supporter.

Politicians

UK

Charles Clarke - Former Home Secretary, frequently panders to hysteria, organises with CSA charities. Child-Safe endorsement.

John Reid - Former Home Secretary, frequently panders to hysteria, organises with CSA charities. Child-Safe endorsement.

Dan Norris - MP for Wansdyke (Somerset), frequently uses child sex to further his career, Sarah's Law supporter. "In 20 years of experience in child protection I have had the misfortune to work with many paedophiles".

Helena Kennedy - Baroness with a long history of CSA campaigning, including TV. Recently took up a civil-libertarian POV, though.

Canada

Landon Pearson - Vice-chair of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child and editor of the report, "For Canada's Children: National Agenda for Action" in 1979; president then chair of the Canadian Council on Children and Youth from 1984-1990; founder and chair of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children until her appointment to the Senate of Canada in 1994. Named personal representative of Prime Minister Hean Chretien to the 2001 Special Session on Children of the UN General Assembly in June 1999. Child-Safe ambassador.

Academics

US

Diana Russell - Radical feminist "researcher".

Len Sperry - A Medical Doctor and PhD who specialises in the "medicine" and "biology" of family relationships. Condemns what he calls pedophilia as an immoral act, a crime and a mental disorder.

Sharon Araji - Historically affiliated with David Finkelhor, and presently University of Alaska. Writing with the agenda of expanding the envelope to "sexually violent" prepubescents.

David Spiegel - Leadership Council zealot who invoked "moral outrage" and "sleazy exploitation" in the Rind et al affair.

Ross Cheit - Leadership Council member.

Samuel Janus - Opportunist sexologist who wrote such tendentious works as The Death of Innocence - how our children are endangered by the new sexual freedom.

Howard Barbaree - Argues for an over broad, part-behavioural definition of pedophilia for the purpose of "taxonomic" efficiency.

Rolland Summitt - Recognised along with Finkelhor as a founding father of CSA, used incest model to expand intrinsic harm theory in the 80s.

UK

Don Grubin - Newcastle University - based North American psychiatrist, implementing the harshest sex-offender treatments on trial by the government, including compulsory lie-detectors. Frequent talking head in the media.

Aus

Freda Briggs - Emeritus Professor of Child Development at the University of South Australia, Child Abuse researcher, educator, writer. Child-Safe ambassador/Bravehearts supporter.

Israel

Shmuel Vaknin - Self-promoting pseudo-academic who writes absurd and derogatory nonsense about pedophiles.

Historical

• Jean Jacques Rousseau - A historical proponent of children's sexual innocence.

Web-nyms

• Antipaedo - On Youtube or "Jacey" of anti-paedo.blogspot.com and Absolute Zero, a prolific writer and Photoshop artist for anti-pedophiles.

• Marina H - Publicly known as Stitches77, lead-writer for hateblog Absolute Zero.

• Petra Luna - Amateur Myspace artist, youtube campaigner, declared "war on abuse", attempted to shut down Puellula, one disastrous TV appearance.

References

For Child-Safe ambassadors, http://www.child-safe.org.uk/about/ambassadors/index.aspx