Martin Goldberg failings 'an accident waiting to happen'

Failings to fully investigate a teacher who took indecent photographs of pupils were "an accident waiting to happen", an ex-child protection chief has said.

Martin Goldberg, 46, deputy head of a Southend private school, had images of children undressing in changing rooms. UK authorities were alerted in 2012 in a global operation but Essex Police did not speak to him until 9 September. Jim Gamble, the ex-Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) head, said the failings were "awful".

The Home Office has been asked to comment.

 

Mr Goldberg, who taught at Thorpe Hall School, was found dead the day after being interviewed by police. His name was on a list of people who had bought online DVDs and videos, some of which showed graphic images of children. Toronto Police's "Project Spade" passed the list to the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) in July 2012. The unit did not share the information with local police forces until November 2013 and then Essex Police failed to act on it for 10 months.Names on the list included the Suffolk doctor Myles Bradbury, who this month admitted abusing young patients at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

 

The delay in passing the information on is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Mr Gamble, who resigned in a row over CEOP's future in 2010, said: "This was an accident waiting to happen. "When I resigned, we were dealing with 600 or 700 reports a month, and we were struggling with that.  "But in the last few years, CEOP has been dealing with 1,800 a month. It's not possible to deal with those volumes without there being huge room for error." CEOP was absorbed into the National Crime Agency last October - something Mr Gamble believes diverted resources away from the unit.

 

"What is happened is awful, and I'm not trying to excuse it," he said.

"But what I don't want to see is the very few staff doing far, far too much work being demonised, when actually this is an issue that should go right to the heart of leadership." Essex's Police and Crime Commissioner, Nick Alston, said he was concerned about the length of time it took Essex Police to act on the information about Goldberg once it had been passed on.

'Urgent improvements vital'

"In my judgement, there's been a failing here that we need to understand and put right," he said.

Home Affairs Select Committee Chairman Keith Vaz said the delay in acting on the information was "totally unacceptable". He said he had written to the National Crime Agency and the Canadian authorities to ask what steps were taken after they acquired the details. "It is vital that urgent improvements are made to strengthen international co-operation and speed up action following receipt of information, especially where suspects have daily contact with children in their place of work," Mr Vaz said.

Essex Police said it was acting on 18 lines of inquiry from Project Spade. So far two people have been charged with possessing indecent images of children - one a fireman, another a bus driver. A third arrested man has been released.

The force said four other suspects are retired and the others are in low-risk occupations. Twelve properties have been searched.

Alice Gross murder: Police identify body in river

It always breaks my heart when a young girl goes missing. So when I read an article like this is really makes me think of how many sick and twisted people are out there…

A body found in a west London river is that of missing Alice Gross, the Metropolitan Police have confirmed.

The 14-year-old's body was found on Tuesday night in the River Brent. She was last seen on 28 August when she left her home in Hanwell, west London.  Alice's parents say they have been "left completely devastated" and thanked the local community for its help in the search.

A post-Morten examination began earlier at Uxbridge Mortuary. Police said: "Due to the complex nature of this investigation the post-Morten is still ongoing and will resume tomorrow."

Alice's parents Rosalind Hodgkiss and Jose Gross, said: "It is difficult to comprehend that our sweet and beautiful daughter was the victim of a terrible crime. Why anyone would want to hurt her is something that we are struggling to come to terms with."

Her school said in a statement she was "outstanding and talented".

 

If dog is man’s best friend then why is there animal cruelty!

When you buy a pet, such as a dog or a cat then why do people let them out or just leave them in their houses as when they move miles away. Dog’s trust helps recover unwanted animals and looks after them. Which I think means that there is no need to abandon them. Looking through cases on animal cruel always putting a downer on your day if you have a heart; but if you don’t like animals then maybe not so much.

You may like to think that a pet is a like child of the family that it is your property to look after. You wouldn’t leave a child without a parent or even if you couldn’t or didn’t want to try to look after your child, then there are people that would and should be willing to take your young child in, this is of course knowing as fostering or adopting. Some people will do this for the money but most people will do it because they like children and want to make these children have a life that is happy. So looking after a pet should be seen in a similar way.

As there are similar elements to looking after children and looking after a pet such as you have to feed and water both and show both love, whether that is playing with them or just making sure you play with them both. One you put on a lead and the other you push is a pram.

One thing that I think should be mention is that there are videos and articles that are going around about Bestiality, which is the sexual act between human beings and animals. This is or was hard believe until I looked through articles on animal cruelty. On one case that I looked at was about a man who thought in it was a good idea to have sex with a fully grown horse. First of all, I would like to point out this farm where this case happened was rumoured to best place to perform these bestiality acts on the animals. But anyway this man who’s best idea was to perform these acts with a horse which later killed him as the horse ripped his colon. I think what was the worst thing about this case was that it killed him after having sex with the horse. Well he died in hospital after being dropped off by a friend who helped him perform his act that should only be descripted as stupid and insane.

Another case about this kind of abuse is that woman 18 and over are performing acts with dogs, which having a dog myself finds it really hard to believe that they are finding their furring pets obviously sexually attractive which should be thought as wrong on so many levels. And surely should be stopped but the government in every country doesn’t care.

This thing bestiality is also a very sick person’s form of porn which should be illegal. Like all porn as it is degrading for woman and all guys expect girls to perform like porn stars. But animal porn should be shut down but people who sort through the web links should search for and block.

So to summarise, animal cruel and abuse of all animals, not just the household pets, should be fought against and stopped.

  

Doctor who

So the new doctor who has started. So it's a new doctor and a new TARDIS. And who could forget the new starting and ending to the show. I personally have been watching the show since I was little and I have watched it develop and grow. So I'm always going to watch it. The doctor isn't your boyfriend he's a time travelling alien :) 

DOCTOR WHO IS BACK,

Time to see the new doctor in his new role.... Time to wish him GOOD LUCK FROM A FELLOW WHOIVAN!

Time to get own costumes and watch doctor who on 23rd of august 2014!

Normandy

You never think how bad the war has been until you visit the d-day beaches. 70 years ago 55,000 people died in the 12 weeks when Canadian,  American and english soldiers landed on the beaches to save the french and free France from Nazis. It was interesting.

R.I.P
TO ALL SOLDIERS DIED FROM 1914 TO 1945
WORLD WAR 1 AND 2

Sherlock vs doctor who

I have always liked programmes where someone has a higher level of IQ than the average person. Both sherlock and the doctor has the highest IQ which makes it easier for them to solve problems and to storge large amount of information. They are from different backgrounds, one is a time and space traveling alien and the both a private detective working with the police and the government to help solve crimes. Most people don't understand them both but they just lack the mental capacity to solve the mysteries, such as the one where sherlock jumped too his dead,  to later it was seem alive. I thought about the different ways they could do that. My first thoughts were that it was a double that fell and sherlock hid on the roof. Then it came to me that he jumped on some form of pillow but an enlarged pillow then a cover but was done to make Dr waston believe he was dead. The doctor is smart from thousands of years of knowledge and experience....