Ovenden walks free no justice for abused children in the UK.

 Once again a judge frees an evil  paedophile!  Graham Ovenden is too old at 70 to be jailed for horrible crimes against little children,

Whilst pensioner with incurable illness and  well known child abuse whistle blower Andrea Davison  63 was  set-up and jailed for three years  over  misdemeanours   

The Judge says Ovenden has suffered enough because he has lost his reputation so  should go free with impunity to attack other children.  

The whole criminal justice system is being used  to protect paedophiles and persecute whistle-blowers. 

Daily Mail reports that:-

The soft sentence that even surprised a pervert: Judge FREES artist who sexually abused three children as young as six while they posed for his paintings

• Graham Ovenden, 70, molested young girls he used as models
• Judge said it was 'unrealistic' to assume offences were isolated incidents
• Artist's work once hung in the Tate and the Victoria and Albert museum
• Victims abused between 1972 and 1985 in London and Bodmin, Cornwall
• Ovenden refuses to apologise and said he has committed no crime
• He says he has been through 'considerable hell'

An internationally renowned artist who molested young girls he used as models walked free from court yesterday.
Child abuse campaigners said the  suspended sentence on 70-year-old Graham Ovenden was 'outrageous’ and sent out the message that such crimes are not taken seriously.
But the judge said he had taken account of the artist’s age and his 'irreversibly tarnished reputation’.
Ovenden, whose work has been exhibited at major galleries including The Tate in  London, invited girls as young as six to sit for portraits and photographs.

Free man: Shamed artist Graham Ovenden, 70, pictured arriving at Plymouth Crown Court today, escaped with a 12 month suspended sentence

He would blindfold his victims and make them wear Victorian nightwear before removing the clothing and committing indecent acts, a jury heard.
The artist was found guilty in April, but left court yesterday after he was sentenced insisting arrogantly that he had been the victim of a 'witch-hunt’ and had 'been through considerable hell’.
Asked if he thought everybody was  wrong apart from him, he replied: 'Since I’m probably 20 times  more intelligent than most people I think that would be a very reasonable assumption.’
His self-assessment does not match the description of him in court as 'a paedophile, a sexual abuser of children’.

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Suggesting that he would be appealing the guilty verdict, Ovenden added: 'I am not backing down and under no circumstances am I apologising for crimes that were never committed.’
The jury chose to believe the evidence that showed Ovenden was a predatory child abuser who assaulted young girls in incidents dating back between 25 and 40 years at his former home in Hounslow, West London, as well as at his studio in Cornwall.
On his way to court yesterday the artist said Judge Graham Cottle, who could have put him behind bars, was a 'poisonous man’.

'Fallen from grace': Ovenden, 70, was placed on the Sex Offender's register for five years by the judge

But as he left court Ovenden said: 'I am quite gobsmacked and I have to thank Judge Cottle for his judgment this time. With the language he used one anticipated getting banged up.’
He denied suggestions that his victims were traumatised by what he put them through as 'complete and utter b*******’.
Judge Cottle had told Ovenden: 'You would take the children to your studio to photograph them. They had no understanding at that time what you were doing.

Shamed: At the peak of his popularity, Ovenden's paintings sold for £25,000-a-time and were displayed at London¿s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

'There can be no doubt that at that time you had a sexual interest in children.’ But the judge then  justified his decision to suspend a 12-month prison sentence for two years, saying the artist no longer posed a threat to children.
Adding that guidelines allowed for a jail term of up to five years, the judge told Plymouth Crown Court: 'I take into account your age, the age of the offences, the considerable self-inflicted punishment that comes with your convictions, your steep fall from grace and your irreversibly tarnished  reputation.’
Peter Saunders, chief executive of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said: 'It’s an absolutely outrageous decision.
'The judiciary is sending out the message that this crime is not taken seriously.’
Ovenden, who lives on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, was convicted of six charges of indecency with a child and one allegation of indecent assault, relating to three children. He was cleared of five further charges.

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Update: Attorney General  asked to look at the lenient sentence given to Ovenden http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22782376