Australian ABC Reporters Told Not to Use the Term Pedophile to Describe Child Sex Abusers… Because ‘Not All Pedophiles Molest Children’
Reporters at Australia’s ABC Tasmania have been told not to use the term pedophile to describe child predators because “not all pedophiles abuse children.”
In a leaked email to the staff, a senior producer for the network said that using the term to describe people who prey on children could be “discouraging” non-offending pedophiles from seeking help.
“We should avoid [the term pedophile], unless we know he had a clinical diagnosis of paedophilia and instead use serial sexual offender / predator, or a sexual abuser of children and young people,” the producer warned.
RT reports that “in an email to reporters, an unnamed senior producer at ABC said that the Sexual Assault Support Service (SASS) had ‘mentioned their concerns’ about describing former nurse James Geoffrey Griffin – who committed suicide in 2019 after the allegations against him were made public – as a pedophile.”
“Griffin was accused by multiple women of having abused them as children as far back as the 1980s,
