Tom O'Carroll

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Tom O'Carroll (born c. 1945^[1]) is an Irish writer and controversial activist for pedophilia and the pedophilia advocacy, being one of the founding members of the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and also of its successor, the International Paedophile Child Emancipation Group (IPCE).^[2]

Born in County Carlow, Ireland^[3], O'Carroll gained notoriety in 1980 when he published Paedophilia: The Radical Case, a book that pushed for the normalization of adult-child sexual relationships. In the book, O'Carroll claims that each stage of the sexual relationship between an adult an child is 'negotiated'

by hints and signals, verbal and non-verbal, by which each indicates to the other what is acceptable and what is not... the man might start by saying what pretty knickers the girl was wearing, and he would be far more likely to proceed to the next stage of negotiation if she seemed pleased by the remark than if she coloured up and closed her legs.^[4]

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 photographs that O'Carroll sent back to England when he returned from Qatar. He was working on a book on Michael Jackson.

Later, O'Carroll was arrested once more on suspicion of conspiring to distribute indecent photographs of children after a Met police officer posed as a paedophile to collect evidence.^[5] He was arraigned 1 June 2006 on charges of making, possessing, and distributing child pornography. ^[6] In September 2006, he admitted to two counts of distributing indecent images.^[1]

In December 20, 2006, he was jailed for 2 1/2 years at London’s Middlesex Crown Court^[3].