Petition Crime and Sentencing

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A change on priority for sentencing.
Why is it that a man who enters a cinema and records a film (yes 700,000 people download it), gets prosecuted to 33 months in prison.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28896675
Yet a man who rapes boys over 4 years and records them with a covert camera gets 32 months making 350,000 images?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-28981200

This cannot be right. Both are crimes, but which one causes the most pain to young children.

Lets change this now

This petition closed early because of a General Election

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Date closed 30 March 2015
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