Date published: 2005/09/22
The Cambridge Evening News says:
Police want to trace a man who asked three girls if he could photograph them on their school playing field.
The man spoke to the 10-year-olds who were playing on the St Felix Middle School field off Fordham Road, Newmarket.
Other children challenged the man, who left the area.
Police do not believe that he took any photographs. He did not go onto the school premises and spoke to the girls over a gate on a path leading to the "Yellow Brick Road" riverside walk and cycle path.
The man is said to have been between 20 and 30 years old. He was white with dark hair spiked on top and was about 5ft 6in tall.
He was wearing a dark crumpled suit, an open light-coloured shirt and slip-on shoes.
Suffolk police spokesman Mike Nunn said: "We would like to hear from any other girls who may have been approached by this man."
Well perhaps this was a sinister incident, you cannot tell from the description. But it seems like just part of the UK chattering class hysteria about paedophilia. Most photograhers these days are extremely careful about taking photos of children because they know that society now has a warped sensitivity towards children and treats any contact between adults and children as paedophilia. But what is wrong with taking pictures of children (or babies or teenagers or whatever)? Did he ask them to undress and pose naked? (Perhaps he did, one suspects not.) It's no wonder the police have no time to worry about burglaries, they spend far too much time tending to issues whipped up by the chattering classes (especially the media).
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