http://archive.is/Z5ScE http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/12/70_louisiana_cases_among_the_b.html

When a Baton Rouge Boy Scout leader slipped out of the state in the summer of 1986, he didn't bother with a goodbye to Robert Walker, a Scout who had, for a time, considered him a father figure. For the next 26 years, Walker wondered what happened to the man.

He had questions for him: about the vodka parties they'd had when he was 14, about the pornography they'd watched together, about a night in the backseat of a van when he says he pretended to sleep while his Scoutmaster fondled him. He told no one. And while he kept his secret, the Scouts were keeping one, too. ...

His 26 years since have included two suicide attempts, a failed marriage, and an adulthood of self-doubt and self-blame that he attributes, in part, to the abuse he claims he suffered at the hands of his Scoutmaster.

"He made me feel special; he was like a father."

To a certain extent there was almost a love involved," he says now. "So I felt like maybe I had done something to deserve this. Maybe I asked for this and it was my fault."

Walker had been an awkward teenager, with few friends and distant parents, and the Scoutmaster had been the only adult to take an active interest in him. He felt he had no one else to turn to.

"If adults would have told me he had done this to other boys, that it wasn't just me, if the police were contacted, it would have totally changed everything," Walker says now. "It would have totally changed my life."

Admittedly, pedophiliac relationships do sometimes seem beneficial. A child may learn much from a consistent and caring adult lover and come to cherish him as a friend long after the period of erotic attachment has passed. (2) Evidently West is a pedophile. He was severely abused being that his brain and emotional system stopped at that very age. Thus he seeks out those that are within that age group. I have read in reports on here that when a child is so abused, that is what happens, they cannot mature. Thus he believes that there is nothing wrong with what he is doing. WRONG Dr. West. You are a sick individual. Not only are you probably carrying out your beliefs, but you are teaching them and brain washing your students.

These are the people in our schools and institutions, in our Churches...promoting or enabling the predatory and delusional Philosophy of a Pedo Utopia, if only family or friends of the children would get out of the way and let 'Child Sexuality' be nurtured by the Pedos!

Donald West is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge.

West is against the criminal prosecution of child sexual abuse no matter how young the victim, as long as the abuse is “consensual”, and voiced his agreement with the Dutch paedophile activist Edward Brongersma.

I happen to agree that the criminal prosecution of sexual acts is inappropriate, whatever the age of the participants. West reveals his attitude to abused children by using inverted commas around the word ‘victim’

And this brings to mind Hillary Rodham (Clinton)'s justification for blaming the 12 year old rape victim instead of her client the rapist, her first case.

He portrays child victims as instigating the abuse, referring to “casual sexual indulgence” and, in reference to a headmaster sexually abusing boys in his care, talks of the boys “light-heartedly taking advantage of the opportunities presented”.

He downplays the effects of institutional sexual abuse in children’s homes and schools, saying it was ‘unwise to overdramatize – many boys have not taken the behaviour at all seriously or felt the need to make an official complaint’

West repeatedly refers to child sexual abuse as being consensual.

Although sexual offences with children are predominantly non-violent and often in effect consensual…

He claims that the majority of child sexual abuse is characterized by “affectionate playfulness and willing participation” and talks of a father abusing his child as being a “completely mutual relationship”.

West praises and defends a notorious Australian child abuser called Clarence Osborne, and apportions responsibility to his child victims who “returned again and again” to their abuser.

As late as 1987, when more evidence had been published about the huge damage caused by child sexual abuse, West was still referring to child abusers as “child lovers”, described abuse as “mutually pleasurable experiences”, and talked of paedophiles seeking out “willing partners…much as ordinary lovers do”.

It has already been emphasised that the vast majoroty of men who are sexually attracted to children ae non-violent in their approaches. Signs of fear or annoyance on the child’s part would normally make them desist. After all, child lovers are seeking, however inapropriately, an affectionate response and a mutually pleasurable experience. Paedophiles often develop great sensitivity to children’s reactions and are able to select, much as ordinary lovers do, those who are likely to prove willing partners.

West criticises the law for criminalising adults who engage in “consensual” child sexual abuse, and suggests that the law should be changed to fix an age below which it would be assumed the child did not consent – “unless the contrary could be proved”. It appears the age he had in mind was very low indeed, as he gives the examples of “very young infants, even babies” who would not be expected “to appreciate fully what is happening or to formulate a complaint”.

"The toddler wanted me to it!"

Donald West is either delusional or a liar about his views, objecting to only "non-consensual' child sexual abuse:

Donald West continued his association with O’Carroll (PIE)

despite the latter’s conviction for distributing films of 6 year old boys being raped and tortured,

and in 2011 helped promote O’Carroll’s book about ‘Michael Jackson’s love of boys’. “Donald West, emeritus professor of clinical criminology at Cambridge University, wrote that the author’s “vivid and insightful commentary is a joy to read”

West used the ‘research’ of Peter Righton, who was later exposed as being a Paedophile Information Exchange PIE member and being part of a network of paedophiles who abused boys in children’s homes and schools across the UK. West quotes Righton saying that

“most” children benefit from being sexually abused: “men had shown a lasting devotion, boys expressed appreciation for the consideration and attention they had received which they rarely got in their own homes and most felt they benefited’.