Judge tells teacher sex offender: 'I don't criticise you for being attracted to children'

David Armstrong, a supply teacher, escaped jail with a suspended sentence after admitting possessing 4,500 indecent images of children. As she allowed the 63-year-old to walk free from court, Judge Mary Jane Mowat told him: "I don't criticise you for being a teacher who's attracted to children. Many teachers are but they keep their urges under control both when it comes to children and when it comes to images of children."

source: Article < Judge tells teacher sex offender: 'I don't criticise you for being attracted to children' > by Murray Wardrop; www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8671235/Judge-tells-teacher-sex-offender-I-dont-criticise-you-for-being-attracted-to-children.html; Telegraph; 29 July 2011