DrapedInDarkness
Distinguished Member
Bear with me as this is one of those hot topics that some people hate.
Without going into details I am involved in local events and we allow new members to join us twice a year.
One of those new members came in and seemed like a really nice fellow, joined in as much as possible and helped out whenever he could.
But just over a month ago he confided in our chairman that he is on the sex offenders register for viewing images of children, the chairman and myself were asked to meet with the local police to discuss his disclosure as it turned out they had told him to disclose or give it up.
They confirmed that his offence was Level 1 images and that he had not committed any contact offences.
Whilst on the one hand I kind of admire him for telling us I am also torn with that fact I really should be hating him, now we are not a collection of kids (mainly in our 50-60's) but occasionally kids do asked to get involved which is why he had to disclose.
Now the chairman and I have to decide whether its best to keep him in the group or ask him to leave and face possible consequences of those actions, we are really struggling here so I would welcome any advice.
I am not breaking the law here as I have not disclosed any information that apparently cannot be found on the net anyway if you look. plus I have mentioned no names or situations
Without going into details I am involved in local events and we allow new members to join us twice a year.
One of those new members came in and seemed like a really nice fellow, joined in as much as possible and helped out whenever he could.
But just over a month ago he confided in our chairman that he is on the sex offenders register for viewing images of children, the chairman and myself were asked to meet with the local police to discuss his disclosure as it turned out they had told him to disclose or give it up.
They confirmed that his offence was Level 1 images and that he had not committed any contact offences.
Whilst on the one hand I kind of admire him for telling us I am also torn with that fact I really should be hating him, now we are not a collection of kids (mainly in our 50-60's) but occasionally kids do asked to get involved which is why he had to disclose.
Now the chairman and I have to decide whether its best to keep him in the group or ask him to leave and face possible consequences of those actions, we are really struggling here so I would welcome any advice.
I am not breaking the law here as I have not disclosed any information that apparently cannot be found on the net anyway if you look. plus I have mentioned no names or situations