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Airdate: The Paedophile Next Door

ABC2 screens a UK documentary that explores radical and controversial alternatives in child protection.

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Tomorrow night ABC2 screens a UK documentary that sets out to discover why legislation to protect children from sexual abuse appears to have failed, and explores radical and controversial alternatives.

The Paedophile Next Door even includes an interview with a paedophile who offers his own perspective on camera.

Britain has a growing problem, with child sex abuse scandals breaking almost on a weekly basis. Dangerous predators appear to be everywhere and children are at risk.

This program delves beneath the sensationalism to challenge the public’s perspective on the issue that continues to dominate headlines.

Steve Humphries is an acclaimed historian and award-winning film maker who has long been passionate about child protection. He has made several films on the issue of child sexual abuse, most notably Sex in a Cold Climate which broke the story of abuse in the Catholic Church back in the 1990s.

The documentary follows Steve on a journey to discover more about Britain’s ‘paedophile problem’. He examines how the current state of crisis has developed and explores radical new ideas and previously unheard perspectives that may help improve the protection of children.

The program includes powerful testimony from survivors of unimaginable abuse as well as hearing from controversial experts who believe that, in order to keep children safe, society needs to completely revolutionise how it ‘deals with’ paedophiles: including listening to them in an effort to try and ‘understand them’.

Wednesday 11 November, 9:30pm ABC2

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