Should Paedophiles be 'Prescribed' CHILD SEX DOLLS?

Child sex dolls could be given as a “prescription” to treat paedophile’s who have “reached the end of their tether”, a charity has suggested.

The Specialist Treatment Organisation for the Prevention of Sexual Offending (StopSO), is a charity that aims to “prevent harm and protect society” by “offering therapy in the community”. Stop SO’s founder, Juliet Grayson, says child sex dolls could be used in regulated environments to help paedophiles manage their urges in the same way “methadone is used to stop people from using heroin”.

Ms Grayson told RT: “Perhaps a ‘prescription’ for the use of a child sex doll could be given, alongside therapy, mentoring and supervision, could help the individual remain law-abiding and fully accountable for their behaviour. “If our number one priority is to keep young people safe from sexual harm, then we need to be open to new ways of thinking about how we can help those members of society who are sexually attracted to children to manage their urges in safe and law-abiding ways.”

The charity chief claimed the alternative to using child sex dolls meant not providing an outlet at all which is a “riskier strategy” as many paedophiles “have reached the end of their tether”. The National Crime Agency estimates that 750,000 men in the UK have an interest in having sex with children, with250,000 sexually attracted to children under the age of 12.

Ms Grayson added: “Society needs to reach a point where a teenager can say to his mom, ‘I am a paedophile’, and she will get him the right kind of help to manage his behaviours in pro-social ways. “In the same way that methadone is used to stop people from using heroin, if the regulated use of sex dolls could help to prevent people with a sexual attraction to children from using child abuse images or sexually abusing a real child, then maybe we should consider it, however unpalatable that seems.”

It follows reports that police have seized “grotesque” child-like sex dolls, prompting warnings from security agencies. The dolls, weighing the same as a seven-year-old girl and can cost thousands of pounds, according to Hazel Stewart of the National Crime Agency.

Ms Stewart said the dolls were unlike those people might associate with stag-dos and were the precursor to more sophisticated child sex robots, which she warned was "just around the corner". She said: “They are the weight of a seven-year-old child, they are not something that is the traditional blow-updoll.

“[They are] very, very different -very, very more accurate anatomically.”