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Thomas O'Carroll

 

Thomas O'Carroll

Thomas Victor O'Carroll (born c. 1945) is an Irish journalist and pedophile advocate, being a founding member of both the now defunct  (PIE) and Ipec Born in County Carlow, Ireland, O'Carroll gained notoriety in 1980 when he published pdrc, a book that articulated an ethical case for adult-child sexual relationships.
In 1981 he was convicted for "conspiracy to corrupt public morals" over the contact ads section of the PIE magazine and was imprisoned, and once again in 2002 on charges of evading a prohibition on the importation of indecent photographs of children stemming from nude photographs that O'Carroll had taken of children on the beaches of Qatar.
Later, O'Carroll was arrested once more on suspicion of conspiring to distribute indecent photographs of children after supplying an undercover Met police officer who infiltrated the pedophile advocacy groups with a cache of child pornography obtained from his co defendant, Michael John De Clare Studdert's collection. He was arraigned 1 June, 2006 on child porn charges. In September 2006, he admitted to two counts of distributing indecent images of children.
On December 20 2006, he was jailed for 2½ years at London’s Middlesex Crown Court, but was released in the summer of 2007.