| | O'Carroll moved to England in the 1960s. In 1979, O’Carroll was secretary of the UK [[Paedophile Information Exchange]]. When it was officially disbanded he carried on as a prominent member of its successor, the International Paedophile and Child Emancipation group (IPCEG). He was also a press officer for the UK Open University, a publicly-funded institution with a crudely pro-homosexual bias. | | O'Carroll moved to England in the 1960s. In 1979, O’Carroll was secretary of the UK [[Paedophile Information Exchange]]. When it was officially disbanded he carried on as a prominent member of its successor, the International Paedophile and Child Emancipation group (IPCEG). He was also a press officer for the UK Open University, a publicly-funded institution with a crudely pro-homosexual bias. |
| | He was for twenty years from 1975 onwards the protegé of the UK National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL, now Liberty), which supported [[PIE]] and in his book “Paedophilia: the Radical Case,” published in 1980, <ref>Tom O’Carroll, Paedophilia: The Radical Case, pub. Peter Owen, London, 1980, ISBN 0 7206 0546 6</ref> he heartily thanked those who helped him write it “especially… Ms Nettie Pollard of the National Council for Civil Liberties [who] read the whole text in draft and made many helpful suggestions”. | | He was for twenty years from 1975 onwards the protegé of the UK National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL, now Liberty), which supported [[PIE]] and in his book “Paedophilia: the Radical Case,” published in 1980, <ref>Tom O’Carroll, Paedophilia: The Radical Case, pub. Peter Owen, London, 1980, ISBN 0 7206 0546 6</ref> he heartily thanked those who helped him write it “especially… Ms Nettie Pollard of the National Council for Civil Liberties [who] read the whole text in draft and made many helpful suggestions”. |
| − | NCCL’s secretary, Patricia Hewitt, later a [[Labour]] MP refused to say that pedophilia was wrong, but merely said “public hostility to pedophilia was such that it damaged the cause of gay rights for the gay movement to be associated with it”.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10653944/The-right-to-sleep-with-children-was-one-civil-liberty-that-NCCL-supported.html</ref> | + | NCCL’s secretary, Patricia Hewitt, later a [[Labour]] MP refused to say that pedophilia was wrong, but merely said “public hostility to pedophilia was such that it damaged the cause of gay rights for the gay movement to be associated with it”.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10653944/The-right-to-sleep-with-children-was-one-civil-liberty-that-NCCL-supported.html</ref> |