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"Are they celebrating christmas in Vietnam this year?"

"well, they will be hanging Glitter"

Heres my sugestion

Seriously tho if he was chemically castrated would it cure him of his sick urges?

I've no idea but it's a thought.

Interesting point. but doing that dosent redress what he has done to date .. nor are all offenders driven by just a sexual urge alot of it is issues of power and other sick concepts I dont care to think about.

Well as far as I know Westy, Chemical Castration works much like Bromine and it reduces ALL sexual desire so (I might be wrong, I'm not a pharmacist - my partner is but he isn't her for me to ask him) I personally think that it WOULD work. As Blags says tho, he still should be punished for what he's done. That's an interesting point Blags, maybe it is about power rather than sex?

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but children are smaller and weaker than adults so perhaps you are right and it is an issue of control? I've know rape is about control and power rather than sex but I've never looked at child abuse that way before. I think you might be right. The trouble is it's too hard to think about children being sexually abused to look at it logically. I can hold my own in any other emotive or logical debate but if it involves the abuse of children, animals or the elderly then I can't think logically and I get too emotional to find the right words....

Perhaps it is about power tho...

26/11/2005 14:19
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Disgraced British rocker GARY GLITTER has been charged with child molestation in Vietnam - and he faces up to 12 years in jail if convicted.

Glitter - real name PAUL FRANCIS GADD - was arrested last Saturday (19NOV05) at the capital Ho Chi Minh's airport attempting to leave Vietnam for Thailand.

According to officials, the 61-year-old singer will be detained for up to three more months before a trial by the provincial court of Ba Ria Vung Tau.

However, authorities are considering allowing Glitter bail as conditions in the detention centre are so harsh, inmates are forced to sleep on the floor. The bail bond has not been confirmed.

Police have been investigating media claims the star had been living with a 15-year-old girl.

Local newspapers also claimed two girls, aged 12 and 13, had sex with Glitter several times in return for money.

An official says, "The formal charge is engaging in perverse activities with children."

30 November 2005
Mirror
By Nguyen Van Vinh

VUNG TAU, Vietnam (Reuters) - Rocker Gary Glitter, charged in Vietnam last week with child molestation, is now under investigation for raping children, Vietnamese police said on Wednesday.

A senior investigator said the inquiry into the more serious charge was based on medical tests on girls who alleged they had had sex with the 1970s rock icon.

Police last week charged 61-year-old Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, with "engaging in perverse activities with children" and ordered him to remain in custody pending further investigation.

Senior Police Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duc Trinh, who is heading the investigation, said medical tests on two girls, one under 13 years of age, had shown evidence of sexual intercourse, but it was not clear with whom.

"If we can get the legitimate evidence, we can press the additional charge against him of raping children," he said.

"The charge of engaging in perverse activity with children is already obvious, while the charge of raping children is an extremely serious crime which has the higher penalty of death.

"That is why it requires being extremely cautious during the investigation process, and only when there is legitimate evidence is it possible to press the charge."

Glitter, who was arrested on November 19 as he tried to flee the country, has denied allegations that he molested girls as young as 12, and insists he was just helping them with their English.

The age of consent in the communist southeast Asian nation is 16. Glitter could face up to 12 years in jail if found guilty of engaging in perverse acts with children.

The more serious charge of child rape carries a possible death penalty.

Trinh said police had questioned six girls and young women, two of them under 13, who said they had a "sexual relationship" with Glitter while he lived in the southern resort of Vung Tau.

The family of one of the youngest girls has demanded $5,000 in compensation from Glitter, Trinh said.

He said investigators had also found obscene material on Glitter's laptop computer.

Glitter's lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, applied for his client to be released on bail, but Trinh said he would be detained for another two months while police continued their investigation.

Glitter was sentenced to four months in jail in Britain in 1999 after being found guilty of storing more than 4,000 images of child pornography on his computer.

After his release, he left Britain for Cuba, and later turned up in Phnom Penh.

Child rights activists hounded him out of Cambodia twice and had his name put on an entry blacklist, although Glitter filed lawsuits last year fighting the deportation orders.

Glitter had been in Vietnam for about a year when the latest allegations first surfaced in the British press.

I find it hard to believe that a convicted sex offender of children would be naive enough to invite youngsters into his home unsupervised if his only intention was to 'help them with their English'

ITV
2.55PM, Mon Dec 26 2005

Vietnamese police will formally charge British glam rocker Gary Glitter with child molestation and drop an additional charge of child rape, according to his lawyer.

The 61-year-old singer faces up to 12 years in jail if found guilty.

Glitter was arrested last month at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City as he tried to flee Vietnam.

He had left his rented home in the southern resort of Vung Tau amid allegations about his relationships with two teenage girls.

Glitter was taken back to Vung Tau for further investigation by the police and has been detained in a regional prison on suspicion of engaging in obscene acts with a child.

Two Vietnamese girls, aged 12 and 18 years old, have told police they had sex with the singer - real name Paul Francis Gadd - at his home.

His lawyer Le Thanh Kinh, said the findings of the investigation, including the only charge against Glitter, will be handed later this week for the singer to sign before the case is passed to provincial prosecutors for review.

He added: "The investigation has ended and the charge will still be the initial one, while additional issues were not raised by investigators, probably because of a lack of evidence."

Just heard on the radio he is now in prison for molesting ten and eleven year old girls. Rightly so

HeraldSun
Ed Cropley
04mar06

BRITISH glam rocker Gary Glitter was jailed for three years yesterday when a Vietnamese court convicted him of abusing two young girls.

A stunned and angry Glitter shouted back that he was the innocent victim of a conspiracy by a British newspaper.

Judge Hoang Thanh Tung described in graphic detail the offences committed by the 1970s pop star in a rented house in the southern beach town of Vung Tau, drawing gasps from Vietnamese people in the courtroom.

His victims were aged 10 and 11.

"The court pronounces the defendant, Paul Francis Gadd, also known as Gary Glitter, guilty of engaging in lewd acts with children," the judge said.

He said 61-year-old Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, would be deported as soon as he had served his time.

The black-shirted Glitter had a shaved head except for a grey ponytail and white goatee beard.

Looking much thinner than during his rocking days, he was told by the judge to remove his red bandanna.

He stared ahead impassively as the sentence was read out in a courtroom packed with foreign journalists.

But afterwards he protested his innocence.

"It's a conspiracy by you know who . . . one of Great Britain's newspapers," he said as he was escorted into a prison van by 10 policemen.

Glitter's lawyer said he would be eligible for parole one year from when he was first detained, in November last year.

Glitter has 15 days to appeal but had not decided whether to do so.

He has already spent more than three months of pre-trial detention in a two-man cell at a windswept concrete prison, surrounded by AK-47-toting guards, mould-encrusted walls and coils of rusting razor wire.

As a live performer in the 1970s, Glitter won fame with his own brand of high-octane glam rock -- big guitar coupled with even bigger hair, make-up and heels.

Hits included Do You Wanna Touch Me and I'm the Leader of the Gang, an anthem that lives on in US sports stadiums.

Glitter lost his sparkle in the late 1970s with the advent of punk rock.

After divorcing Ann, his wife of nine years with whom he had two children, he fought a battle with drink and drugs.

With occasional hit singles, such as Dance Me Up, as well as the pantomime circuit, TV appearances and his conversion to Buddhism, he managed to keep the Glitter legend alive.

His life and career finally fell apart in 1997 when a computer repair shop in Britain alerted police to dozens of images of child pornography on the hard drive of his PC.

Radio stations refused to play his songs, his parents changed their name and his cameo appearance in the Spice Girls' movie Spice World was axed.

After serving two months in jail, he disappeared first to Cuba and then Cambodia, a haven for pedophiles.

Twice hounded out by child rights campaigners, he headed to neighbouring Vietnam.

Glitter was adamant he was teaching English to the girls he was convicted of abusing.

Not for the first time, nobody wanted to listen.

- REUTERS

Dirty. Little. Piece. Of. Scum.

I hope his fellow prisoners get their sexual kicks out of him, just like he did with those kids.

I personally think the best way to deal with peadophiles is not to treat them as criminals, but as people with a mental illness. I mean how on earth can anyone determine how long is long enough to lock them up. I'd have a team of psychologists evaluate him and the best way to reform him, and in a different enviroment then prison, and forceably keep them there, until they are deemed to be 'safe'. Be that 6 months or 50 years.

He's a repeat offender, throw away the key

I agree. Having read the story of Sarah Payne and how her mother was told the facts that these people don't think they have done anything wrong and regularly re offend. If my daughters life had been ruined by this revolting crime I would want the offender locked up where he couldn't ever pose a risk again.