UK: Paedophiles who trade child porn will not be sent to prison: New sentencing laws suggest community punishments

The Sentencing Council suggested 'high level community orders' for those convicted of trading or possessing child pornography

The current benchmark jail sentence for those with a small number of images is three months

Only those with pictures of children posing alone or small quantities of images of children engaged in sex acts, but not with adults are not jailed

Criminologist Dr David Green said it was 'sending the wrong message'

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